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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Christian County, Kentucky

Christian County, Kentucky has 42 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1911–1994, including 2 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 1 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 27 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Christian County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
42
Mine openings
2
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
27
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1911–1994 1 OSMRE problems, 1 reclaimed 1 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    2 4.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    31 72.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    8 18.6%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 2.3%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1 2.3%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems1 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Christian Co. Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned27 on register
  1. 007
    Surface coal · Charolais Corp · MSHA ID 1516680
    Abandoned
  2. Apex Materials, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apex Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 1518478
    Abandoned
  3. Asphalt-Stone Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Asphalt-Stone Company · MSHA ID 1505414
    Abandoned
  4. Auger #1
    Surface coal · B & E Inc · MSHA ID 1517324
    Abandoned
  5. Bright Star No 6
    Underground coal · Mannington Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514942
    Abandoned and Sealed
  6. Brown Mine
    Surface coal · Darnell Mining Company · MSHA ID 1513762
    Abandoned
  7. Castleberry Mine
    Surface coal · Tdc Inc · MSHA ID 1510324
    Abandoned
  8. Christian Mine
    Surface coal · Christian Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1510134
    Abandoned
  9. Christian Quarries Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Christian Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1500017
    Abandoned
  10. Christie
    Surface coal · Double G Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1509877
    Abandoned
  11. Christy No 1
    Surface coal · Christy Mine No 1 · MSHA ID 1514783
    Abandoned
  12. City Stone & Ready Mix Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Stone & Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 1515572
    Abandoned
  13. Cynthia Coal Company Inc No 8
    Surface coal · Cynthia Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1512725
    Abandoned
  14. Delpha
    Surface coal · Delpha Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1511075
    Abandoned
  15. Glen Larkins Strip
    Surface coal · Larkins Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1507193
    Abandoned
  16. H & G Construction Inc Mine A#2
    Surface coal · H & G Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513913
    Abandoned
  17. H & G Mine B 1
    Surface coal · H & G Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513675
    Abandoned
  18. Hopkinsville Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hopkinsville Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1500036
    Abandoned
  19. Island Fork Constr. LTD Mine #2
    Surface coal · Island Fork Construction LTD · MSHA ID 1514455
    Abandoned
  20. Mannington No 1
    Surface coal · J & G Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1509956
    Abandoned
  21. Mark Energy
    Surface coal · Charolais Corp · MSHA ID 1516810
    Abandoned
  22. Mine No 1
    Surface coal · Regis Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1512957
    Abandoned
  23. Oasis
    Surface coal · Rapid Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1518314
    Abandoned
  24. Pembroke Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1506290
    Abandoned
  25. Plant No 2
    Facility coal · West Kentucky Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 1510300
    Abandoned
  26. Princeton Const Co Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Princeton Constructon Company · MSHA ID 1503878
    Abandoned
  27. Schooley Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Renne Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1504228
    Abandoned

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

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Strip Mine 23
Quarry 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Strip Mine 2
Adit 2
Disturbed Surface 2
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 1
Mine Dump 1
Quarry 1
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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  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.