Abandoned mines in Boyd County, Kentucky

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   73 29.1%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   105 41.8%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   11 4.4%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   6 2.4%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   1 0.4%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   55 21.9%

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. #2 Riverway Terminals

   Facility coal · TTI Synfuel, Inc. · MSHA ID 1518424
   Abandoned 2007-10-09
2. Angel No 1 Surface Mine

   Surface coal · Blue Angel Corp · MSHA ID 1513259
   Abandoned 1982-04-06
3. Bailey Tipple

   Facility coal · Rail Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1510398
   Abandoned 1980-03-13
4. Big Sandy River Dock

   Facility coal · Cliffs Logan County Coal Terminals, LLC · MSHA ID 1510306
   Abandoned 2010-09-20
5. Bluegrass Surface Mine 10-13

   Surface coal · Bluegrass Mining · MSHA ID 1512642
   Abandoned 1986-11-17
6. Central Shop

   Facility coal · Addington Brothers Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1510261
   Abandoned 1980-09-22
7. Coalton Transfer -Tipple

   Facility coal · Addington Brothers Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1510994
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
8. Continental River Dock

   Facility coal · Continental Coal Sales Corp · MSHA ID 1510286
   Abandoned 1980-07-15
9. Cooksey Landfill No 1 Surface

   Surface coal · Cooksey Brothers Disposal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513835
   Abandoned 1983-06-27
10. County Line Tipple

    Facility coal · Amber Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1509378
    Abandoned 1988-01-29
11. Elmon Surface

    Surface coal · Elmon Corp · MSHA ID 1510361
    Abandoned 1980-02-19
12. Job

    Surface coal · Seam Coal Company · MSHA ID 1510708
    Abandoned 1980-12-04
13. Job #7

    Surface coal · Addington Inc · MSHA ID 1512531
    Abandoned 1994-09-23
14. Jr-1 Surface

    Surface coal · Westover Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1507050
    Abandoned 1979-10-25
15. Ky No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Collins Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513270
    Abandoned 1987-04-22
16. Leon Service Co

    Facility coal · Leon Service Company · MSHA ID 1516873
    Abandoned 1990-07-02
17. Lockwood Dock

    Facility coal · SNR RIVER OPS LLC · MSHA ID 1510358
    Abandoned 2024-06-10
18. Marigold Docks

    Facility coal · Marigold Docks Inc · MSHA ID 1514291
    Abandoned 1990-04-30
19. Marigold North

    Facility coal · Marigold Docks Inc · MSHA ID 1516791
    Abandoned 1996-10-08
20. Mcguire No 1 Surface Mine

    Surface coal · V Mc Guire Coal Company · MSHA ID 1508912
    Abandoned 1982-07-21
21. No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · William J Shope · MSHA ID 1515205
    Abandoned 1986-03-03
22. No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Roger Salyers · MSHA ID 1515222
    Abandoned 1985-11-19
23. No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Black Star Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1515254
    Abandoned 1987-09-15
24. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Demar Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1507614
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
25. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · J Frank Wright Mining Company · MSHA ID 1508530
    Abandoned 1979-10-21
26. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Paul Coffey Construction Company · MSHA ID 1509534
    Abandoned 1981-07-08
27. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · R J S Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1509765
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
28. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · L L & G Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1510510
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
29. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Champion Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1511587
    Abandoned 1980-02-20
30. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Copico Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1514948
    Abandoned 1985-02-21
31. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Carnell W Vance Jr · MSHA ID 1515627
    Abandoned 1987-03-25
32. No 1 Surface Mine

    Surface coal · K & K Coal Company · MSHA ID 1512596
    Abandoned 1982-07-21
33. No 1 Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Contract Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1512633
    Abandoned 1982-05-19
34. No 1 Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Big W Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1513155
    Abandoned 1982-05-03
35. No 1 Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Eagle Stone Inc · MSHA ID 1514148
    Abandoned 1984-11-29
36. No 2 Surface

    Surface coal · Cave Run Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510080
    Abandoned 1977-07-11
37. No 2 Surface

    Surface coal · Runyon Augering · MSHA ID 1510397
    Abandoned 1977-07-11
38. No 2 Surface

    Surface coal · P C W Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1510423
    Abandoned 1978-05-04
39. No 2-A Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Ruth Contracting Corp · MSHA ID 1513353
    Abandoned 1984-11-29
40. No 3 Dredge

    Facility coal · Rivco Dredging Corp · MSHA ID 1514526
    Abandoned 1984-05-18
41. No 3 Strip

    Surface coal · N A P Coal Company · MSHA ID 1504647
    Abandoned 1980-04-28
42. No 3 Surface

    Surface coal · Abba Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1514971
    Abandoned 1985-04-16
43. No 3 Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Cline Brick Coal Company · MSHA ID 1504643
    Abandoned 1975-06-24
44. Peggy Tipple

    Facility coal · Westover Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1508165
    Abandoned 1979-10-11
45. Prep Plant

    Facility coal · Kentucky King Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1508171
    Abandoned 1975-09-22
46. Princess

    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Brick · MSHA ID 1500153
    Abandoned 2008-05-28
47. Processing Plant No 1

    Facility coal · Leon Processing Company Inc · MSHA ID 1508965
    Abandoned 1995-06-22
48. Red Bud Dock No. 1

    Facility coal · Appalachian Mining & Reclamation LLC · MSHA ID 1515609
    Abandoned 2018-02-27
49. Riverway North Dock (D)

    Facility coal · Riverway North Inc · MSHA ID 1511450
    Abandoned 1983-05-11
50. Shannaco Dredge & Process

    Facility coal · Shannaco · MSHA ID 1514987
    Abandoned 1985-09-20
51. SHM 81

    Surface coal · Mega Highwall Mining LLC · MSHA ID 1519875
    Abandoned 2020-01-24
52. Short River Dock

    Facility coal · Kentucky King Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1510012
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
53. South

    Facility coal · Appalachian Mining & Reclamation LLC · MSHA ID 1518542
    Abandoned 2023-07-13
54. Surface Mines

    Surface coal · Mile Branch Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1504358
    Abandoned 1973-02-26

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Pike County 2,690
• Floyd County 2,006
• Letcher County 1,343
• Knott County 989
• Harlan County 911
• Johnson County 802
• Whitley County 726
• Perry County 695
• Knox County 639
• Bell County 627
• Leslie County 540
• Clay County 433

1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
   597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
   States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
   One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
   Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
   Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
   Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
   The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
   Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.