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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Greenup County, Kentucky

Greenup County, Kentucky has 362 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1926–2002, including 163 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 7 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 13 problems in the county, 7 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 55 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Greenup 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)
362
Mine openings
163
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
7
MSHA mines marked abandoned
55
7 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1926–2002 13 OSMRE problems, 6 reclaimed 0 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
    167 44.5%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    132 35.2%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    67 17.9%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 0.5%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    7 1.9%
Named features on the maps7 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Coal Field Adit
Coal Field Adit
Coal Field Adit
Coal Field Adit
Coal Field Adit
Coal Field Adit
Coal Field Adit

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems13 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Bear Run Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bear Run Portals P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Bear Run Portals P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bellefonte Subsidenc P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Billy Stephens Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Billy Stephens Drainage P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Bob Dalton Refuse P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Brush Creek-sturdivant P3 Bench Reclamation Completed
Brush Creek-sturdivant P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Clarence Jenkins Portal P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Muddy Branch Subside P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Rockhouse Fork Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Sherry & Bob Adkins Drainage P2 Dangerous Slides 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 Abandoned55 on register
  1. Brushcreek
    Surface coal · Black Hills Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1514338
    Abandoned
  2. Conley No 2 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Conley Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510924
    Abandoned
  3. Danleyton Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Lock Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514511
    Abandoned
  4. Danlynton Mine No 1
    Surface coal · Coalfield Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1514862
    Abandoned
  5. Debbie Jo Dock
    Facility coal · Debbie Jo Dock Inc · MSHA ID 1511663
    Abandoned
  6. Eflow Stone Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Addington Inc · MSHA ID 1515727
    Abandoned
  7. Gibbon'S Mine #1
    Surface coal · Greenbo Land Company · MSHA ID 1513779
    Abandoned
  8. Greenup Co No 4
    Surface coal · Little Fork Resources & Development Corp · MSHA ID 1514149
    Abandoned
  9. Greenup County Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Addington Inc · MSHA ID 1517247
    Abandoned
  10. Greenup Wash Plant & Refuse
    Facility coal · Addington Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1517173
    Abandoned
  11. Howland Tract Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Coy Clay Company · MSHA ID 1500180
    Abandoned
  12. K-4 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Appalachian Fuels, LLC · MSHA ID 1518599
    Abandoned
  13. Kehoe Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kehoe Rock And Stone, LLC · MSHA ID 1518703
    Abandoned
  14. Kentucky No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Bellville Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510260
    Abandoned
  15. Keystone
    Facility coal · Keystone Senior, LLC · MSHA ID 1518551
    Abandoned
  16. Logtown
    Surface coal · Addington Inc · MSHA ID 1516080
    Abandoned
  17. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Big Valley Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1507731
    Abandoned
  18. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · P & J Coal & Mineral Company Inc · MSHA ID 1507917
    Abandoned
  19. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Roddy Sturdivant Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1508238
    Abandoned
  20. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · D D & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 1508758
    Abandoned
  21. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · B & W Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1508907
    Abandoned
  22. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · P C Coal Company · MSHA ID 1509316
    Abandoned
  23. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Wolfe Clay & Coal Company · MSHA ID 1509797
    Abandoned
  24. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Evermans Inc · MSHA ID 1510097
    Abandoned
  25. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · B & E Coal Company · MSHA ID 1510098
    Abandoned
  26. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Claxon Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1510099
    Abandoned
  27. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Greenup County Land Company · MSHA ID 1510107
    Abandoned
  28. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · W J S Inc · MSHA ID 1510132
    Abandoned
  29. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Twin Rivers Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1511512
    Abandoned
  30. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · J Frank Wright Mining Company · MSHA ID 1512367
    Abandoned
  31. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · C & M Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513364
    Abandoned
  32. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Teco Inc · MSHA ID 1514745
    Abandoned
  33. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · L Z English Inc · MSHA ID 1515742
    Abandoned
  34. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Green-Pike Coal Company · MSHA ID 1507925
    Abandoned
  35. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · R & I Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1511627
    Abandoned
  36. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Paul Coffey Construction Company · MSHA ID 1513182
    Abandoned
  37. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · East Fork Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1513279
    Abandoned
  38. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Probe Mining & Processing Inc · MSHA ID 1513280
    Abandoned
  39. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Wilburn Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1513663
    Abandoned
  40. No 2 Surface
    Surface coal · Seam Coal Company · MSHA ID 1511008
    Abandoned
  41. No 2 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · W S H Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1508017
    Abandoned
  42. No 2 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · L L & G Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1511004
    Abandoned
  43. No 3 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Gauley River Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1513739
    Abandoned
  44. No 4 Surface
    Surface coal · D D & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 1509336
    Abandoned
  45. No 4 Surface
    Surface coal · Little Sandy Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 1509683
    Abandoned
  46. No 4 Surface
    Surface coal · Demar Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510768
    Abandoned
  47. No 4 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Cave Run Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510766
    Abandoned
  48. No 6 Surface
    Surface coal · Boyd County Coal Co · MSHA ID 1506703
    Abandoned
  49. P C W No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · P C W Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1510032
    Abandoned
  50. Pennington & Son
    Surface coal · Jerry Pennington · MSHA ID 1515769
    Abandoned
  51. Pleasant Valley
    Surface coal · Addington Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1517148
    Abandoned
  52. River Dock #2
    Facility coal · Addington Inc · MSHA ID 1512832
    Abandoned
  53. South Shore Terminal
    Facility coal · Kentucky-Ohio Transportation Company · MSHA ID 1511139
    Abandoned
  54. Tunnel Branch
    Surface coal · Addington Inc · MSHA ID 1515355
    Abandoned
  55. Turnwall Const No 1
    Surface coal · Turnwal Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515247
    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
Adit 163
Strip Mine 107
Clay Pit 41
Disturbed Surface 21
Clay Pit 19
Quarry 3
P1 Portals 3
P2 Dangerous Slides 2
Strip Mine 2
P2 Subsidence 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Sand Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
P3 Spoil Area 1
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 1
P1 Dangerous Slides 1
P2 Portals 1
P3 Bench 1
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 1
Other counties in KentuckyAll counties →
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.