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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Knott County, Kentucky

Knott County, Kentucky has 989 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1992, including 856 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 227 problems in the county, 135 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 700 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Knott 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)
989
Mine openings
856
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
135
MSHA mines marked abandoned
700
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1992 227 OSMRE problems, 92 reclaimed 232 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
    913 75.1%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    130 10.7%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    6 0.5%
  4. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    8 0.7%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    159 13.1%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems227 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
22045WDLBAML (Big Branch to Montgom P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Aaron Ritchie Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Alice Lloyd Col Port P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Allen Silt Pond P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Allen Silt Pond P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Alma Cody Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Arnold Fork/Clear Creek P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Ashley Portal P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Avonell Isaac Mountain Breaks P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Bennett Adams Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Bernie Gibson Portals P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Betty Refuse Fire P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Betty Refuse Fire P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Bill Francis Portal P1 Portals In Reclamation
Bobby Cole Slide P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Bobby Cole Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Bryant Ritchie Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Buford Hall Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Buford Smith Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Caney Fork Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Carl Combs Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Carl Combs Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Carl Combs-iii Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Carl Combs-iii Landslide P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Carr Creek Mulit-Sites Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Carr Fk-meadow Br. P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Carr Fk-meadow Br. P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk-meadow Br. P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.- Brinkley P2 Dangerous Impoundments In Reclamation
Carr Fk.- Brinkley P2 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Carr Fk.-big Doubles P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-big Doubles P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-big Doubles P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-big Doubles P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-big Doubles P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-lower Wolfpen P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-lower Wolfpen P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-lower Wolfpen P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-upper Smith P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-upper Smith P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Carr Fk.-upper Smith P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Carr Fork-upper Madden P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Carr Fork-upper Madden P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Catherine Combs P2 Dangerous Impoundments In Reclamation
Charles Tidwell Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Chilion Bolen Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Chilion Bolen Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Clear Creek / Dry Cree WSP P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Clear Creek Aml Water Supply Projec P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Clear Fork Slides P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Clear Fork Slides P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Clear Fork Slides P2 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Clear Fork Slides P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Pending
Clear Fork Slides P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Collins Branch Entries P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Collins Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Combs Branch Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Combs-Hylton Slides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Combs-Hylton Slides P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Cordia/elic Slides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Cordia/elic Slides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Cordia/elic Slides P2 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Crystal Thornsbury Portal P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Cullen Ritchie Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Dalton Breeding Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Dalton Breeding Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Dark Hol. Drift P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Deadman Branch P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Deadman Branch P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Dean Craft Silt Pond P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Defeated Creek Slides P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Defeated Creek Slides P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Delmas Bolen Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Delmas Bolen Landslide P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Delta Theta Tau Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Delta Theta Tau Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Densmore Goodson Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Diane Little Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Dinah Prater Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Dixon Slide P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Dixon Slide P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Edsel Sparkman Slides P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Edsel Sparkman Slides P1 Portals In Reclamation
Elk Fk Rd Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Flaxpatch Branch Mines P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Flaxpatch Branch Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Flaxpatch Branch Mines P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Flaxpatch Branch Mines P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Flaxpatch Branch Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Francis Mine Fire P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Francis Mine Fire P1 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Pending
Gwenolyn Christon Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Gwenolyn Christon Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Hale Br. Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Handshoe Portals P2 Portals In Reclamation
Hauley King Complex P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Hauley King Complex P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Hauley King Complex P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Pending
Head Of Trace/alum P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Head Of Trace/alum P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Hickory Hills Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Hiram Mullins Jr. Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Hiram Mullins Jr. Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Hiram Mullins, Jr. P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Hiram Mullins, Jr. P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Hwy 7 Knott-Letcher Interconnect WS P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Irishman Creek Aml Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Jacks Branch Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
James C. Hall Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
James C. Hall Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
James Conley P2 Portals In Reclamation
James Sturgill Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Jim Jones Adits P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Jim Jones Adits P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Joe Gilliam Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Josh Huff Pond P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Justin Amburgey Refuse Fire P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Kathlene Mchugh Adit P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
KCWSD Generators 2019 AMLER Project P3 Other Reclamation Pending
Keith Griffith Portal P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Kenneth Martin Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Kenneth Martin Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Kinzer Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Kirby Bentley Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Knott Co. Branch Lines AML WSP P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Knott Co. Branch Lines Phase II WSP P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption In Reclamation
Knott Co. Water Treatment Plant P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Ky 1498 Drifts P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Ky Hwy 1410 Logan Gap/trace Fk Wsp P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Ky Hwy 582 Wsp P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Ky. 1231 Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Larry Caudill Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Laurel F Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Laurel Fork QU Creek Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Laurel Quicksand Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Left Fork Dry Creek P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Left Fork Dry Creek P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Left Fork Dry Creek P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Leslie Smith Portals P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Leslie Smith Portals P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Littcar Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Littcar Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands In Reclamation
Lotts Creek Water Supply P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Lotts Creek Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption In Reclamation
Lower Defeated Creek P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Lower Smith Branch P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Lower Smith Branch P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Mallie Slides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Mallie Slides P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Mallie Slides P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending

…and 77 more problems not listed here.

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 Abandoned700 on register
  1. #1
    Underground coal · Five States Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 1510534
    Abandoned and Sealed
  2. #1
    Underground coal · Anderson Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513352
    Abandoned and Sealed
  3. #1
    Underground coal · El'Shaddai Coal Company · MSHA ID 1513524
    Abandoned and Sealed
  4. #1
    Surface coal · Boone Coal Company · MSHA ID 1513579
    Abandoned
  5. #1
    Underground coal · J & J Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513721
    Abandoned and Sealed
  6. #1
    Surface coal · Blue Ridge Coal Company · MSHA ID 1513807
    Abandoned
  7. #1
    Surface coal · K-Lab Coal Company · MSHA ID 1514174
    Abandoned
  8. #1
    Underground coal · J & N Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514532
    Abandoned and Sealed
  9. #1
    Surface coal · Potato Branch Construction Company · MSHA ID 1514682
    Abandoned
  10. #1
    Surface coal · Max Enterprises · MSHA ID 1514723
    Abandoned
  11. #1
    Underground coal · Cruzzie Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514753
    Abandoned and Sealed
  12. #1
    Surface coal · Miracle Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515045
    Abandoned
  13. #1
    Surface coal · Rda Construction Company · MSHA ID 1515087
    Abandoned
  14. #1
    Surface coal · R B & J Coal Company · MSHA ID 1515109
    Abandoned
  15. #1
    Surface coal · Ironwheel Construction Company · MSHA ID 1515281
    Abandoned
  16. #1
    Underground coal · Duane Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515692
    Abandoned and Sealed
  17. #1
    Underground coal · Homer Osborne Enterprise Inc · MSHA ID 1515706
    Abandoned and Sealed
  18. #1
    Surface coal · Gary Roark · MSHA ID 1515767
    Abandoned
  19. #1
    Surface coal · Leah Anderson · MSHA ID 1516005
    Abandoned
  20. #1
    Underground coal · Puncheon Branch Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516018
    Abandoned and Sealed
  21. #1
    Surface coal · Chestnut Branch Mining Company Incorported · MSHA ID 1516202
    Abandoned
  22. #1
    Underground coal · 3-D Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1516218
    Abandoned and Sealed
  23. #1
    Underground coal · T & Bc Coal Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1516236
    Abandoned and Sealed
  24. #1
    Underground coal · Rocky Hollow Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516562
    Abandoned and Sealed
  25. #1
    Underground coal · 550 Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516563
    Abandoned and Sealed
  26. #1
    Underground coal · Franklin Collieries Inc · MSHA ID 1516667
    Abandoned and Sealed
  27. #1
    Underground coal · Kite Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516674
    Abandoned and Sealed
  28. #1
    Underground coal · Mosley Mining Inc. · MSHA ID 1516727
    Abandoned
  29. #1
    Underground coal · Pam The Bear Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517135
    Abandoned and Sealed
  30. #1
    Underground coal · Spud Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1517388
    Abandoned and Sealed
  31. #1
    Underground coal · Inner Mountain Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1518594
    Abandoned and Sealed
  32. #1
    Underground coal · Leprechaun Coal · MSHA ID 1518631
    Abandoned
  33. #1
    Underground coal · Vision Coal Inc. · MSHA ID 1518753
    Abandoned and Sealed
  34. #1
    Underground coal · Viper Coal, LLC · MSHA ID 1519042
    Abandoned
  35. #1
    Underground coal · Jasper Coal, LLC · MSHA ID 1519159
    Abandoned and Sealed
  36. #1
    Surface coal · Hi Ground Development LLC · MSHA ID 1519321
    Abandoned
  37. #1 (Sur)
    Surface coal · Jordan Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513089
    Abandoned
  38. #1 (Sur)
    Surface coal · A & J Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515158
    Abandoned
  39. #1 Deep Mine Southern Hills Mining
    Underground coal · Southern Hills Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515181
    Abandoned and Sealed
  40. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · B J Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1512487
    Abandoned and Sealed
  41. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Truman Hurt Coal Co · MSHA ID 1513367
    Abandoned and Sealed
  42. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Heather Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513371
    Abandoned and Sealed
  43. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Topmost Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1515385
    Abandoned and Sealed
  44. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Iki Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516160
    Abandoned and Sealed
  45. #1 Mountain Top Enterprises
    Underground coal · Mountain Top Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1513982
    Abandoned and Sealed
  46. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Letcher Fuel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1512839
    Abandoned
  47. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Enrik Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1513351
    Abandoned
  48. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · D & H Coal Company · MSHA ID 1514699
    Abandoned
  49. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Timberline Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1515870
    Abandoned
  50. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · K F & K Coal Company · MSHA ID 1516399
    Abandoned
  51. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · George'S Branch Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516426
    Abandoned
  52. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Knott Floyd Land Company · MSHA ID 1518035
    Abandoned and Sealed
  53. #10 Auger
    Surface coal · Rose Mining Inc. · MSHA ID 1518715
    Abandoned
  54. #10 Surface
    Surface coal · Hannco Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1518309
    Abandoned
  55. #11
    Surface coal · A B C Developing Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514258
    Abandoned
  56. #12A
    Underground coal · CKJ Enterprises, Inc · MSHA ID 1518887
    Abandoned
  57. #2
    Underground coal · C H & S Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1512587
    Abandoned and Sealed
  58. #2
    Underground coal · Bruce Branch Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515313
    Abandoned and Sealed
  59. #2
    Underground coal · Topkite Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1515775
    Abandoned and Sealed
  60. #2
    Underground coal · Arnold Fork Coal Company · MSHA ID 1515925
    Abandoned and Sealed
  61. #2
    Surface coal · Salisbury Branch Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1515957
    Abandoned and Sealed
  62. #2
    Underground coal · Kite Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516796
    Abandoned and Sealed
  63. #2
    Underground coal · Rocky Hollow Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517112
    Abandoned and Sealed
  64. #2
    Underground coal · Irishman Elkhorn Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517439
    Abandoned and Sealed
  65. #2
    Underground coal · Pam The Bear Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517529
    Abandoned and Sealed
  66. #2
    Underground coal · Jilco Inc · MSHA ID 1517670
    Abandoned and Sealed
  67. #2
    Underground coal · Spud Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1517807
    Abandoned and Sealed
  68. #2
    Underground coal · Viper Coal LLC · MSHA ID 1519261
    Abandoned and Sealed
  69. #2 Mine
    Underground coal · D M & M Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516393
    Abandoned and Sealed
  70. #2 Punch Mine
    Underground coal · Gemco Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1517427
    Abandoned and Sealed
  71. #2 Surface
    Surface coal · River Processing Inc · MSHA ID 1513271
    Abandoned
  72. #2 Surface
    Surface coal · Hannco Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1517395
    Abandoned
  73. #2a
    Underground coal · Jilco Inc · MSHA ID 1516317
    Abandoned and Sealed
  74. #3
    Underground coal · R & D Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1506792
    Abandoned and Sealed
  75. #3
    Underground coal · Daugherty Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1512535
    Abandoned and Sealed
  76. #3
    Underground coal · J & R Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1517082
    Abandoned and Sealed
  77. #3
    Underground coal · Rocky Hollow Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517331
    Abandoned and Sealed
  78. #3
    Underground coal · Floyd Ridge Mines Inc · MSHA ID 1517511
    Abandoned and Sealed
  79. #3
    Underground coal · Straight Fork Mining Incorporated · MSHA ID 1518441
    Abandoned
  80. #3
    Underground coal · LA Energy LLC · MSHA ID 1518659
    Abandoned and Sealed
  81. #3 Mine
    Underground coal · Melanie Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1511163
    Abandoned and Sealed
  82. #3 Mine
    Underground coal · Three Oaks Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516321
    Abandoned and Sealed
  83. #3 Mine
    Underground coal · C & C Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1516769
    Abandoned and Sealed
  84. #3 Punch Mine
    Underground coal · Gemco Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1517653
    Abandoned and Sealed
  85. #3 Surface
    Surface coal · Hannco Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1517635
    Abandoned
  86. #4
    Underground coal · G & L Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1511164
    Abandoned and Sealed
  87. #4
    Underground coal · D M & M Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516780
    Abandoned and Sealed
  88. #4 Mine
    Underground coal · W & C Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1509856
    Abandoned and Sealed
  89. #4 Punch Mine
    Underground coal · Gemco Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1517915
    Abandoned and Sealed
  90. #5
    Surface coal · Robinson Creek Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513824
    Abandoned
  91. #5
    Underground coal · T R & H Development Inc · MSHA ID 1514474
    Abandoned and Sealed
  92. #5
    Underground coal · Daves Branch Inc · MSHA ID 1517637
    Abandoned and Sealed
  93. #5
    Underground coal · Murriel Don Coal, Inc. · MSHA ID 1518505
    Abandoned
  94. #5 Punch Mine
    Underground coal · Gemco Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1517990
    Abandoned and Sealed
  95. #7 Surface
    Surface coal · Hannco Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1518004
    Abandoned
  96. #78
    Underground coal · Leeco Incorporated · MSHA ID 1517816
    Abandoned
  97. #8
    Underground coal · CKJ Enterprises, Inc · MSHA ID 1518957
    Abandoned
  98. 13a-H4
    Underground coal · Consol Of Kentucky Inc · MSHA ID 1517885
    Abandoned and Sealed
  99. 5A
    Underground coal · Kentucky May Mining · MSHA ID 1518065
    Abandoned and Sealed
  100. Aberry Coal Inc #2 Mine
    Underground coal · Aberry Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1516534
    Abandoned and Sealed
  101. Abundance # 1
    Underground coal · Kentucky Fuel Corporation · MSHA ID 1518711
    Abandoned and Sealed
  102. Allied Mine #1
    Underground coal · Allied Coals Inc · MSHA ID 1505357
    Abandoned and Sealed
  103. Amanda No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · M T S Leasing Inc · MSHA ID 1505496
    Abandoned
  104. Amanda Surface Mine
    Surface coal · M T S Leasing Inc · MSHA ID 1511864
    Abandoned
  105. Anco Prep Plant
    Facility coal · Falcon Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1505300
    Abandoned
  106. Ancon Const Co #3
    Surface coal · Ancon Construction Company · MSHA ID 1514223
    Abandoned
  107. Anderson No 3 Elkhorn
    Underground coal · Anderson Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513749
    Abandoned and Sealed
  108. Apollo Mine
    Underground coal · KNOTT COUNTY COAL LLC · MSHA ID 1518075
    Abandoned and Sealed
  109. Apollo Mine
    Underground coal · ICG Knott County LLC · MSHA ID 1519240
    Abandoned and Sealed
  110. Arnold Fork Mining Inc
    Surface coal · Arnold Fork Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1515874
    Abandoned
  111. Arnold Fork Prep Plant
    Facility coal · Kentucky May Coal Co.,Inc. · MSHA ID 1517338
    Abandoned
  112. Auger Mine No. 31
    Surface coal · B&H Coal Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 1518510
    Abandoned
  113. Auger Mine No. 32
    Surface coal · B&H Coal Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 1518491
    Abandoned
  114. B & J Augering
    Surface coal · B & J Auger Company · MSHA ID 1516628
    Abandoned and Sealed
  115. Ball Creek Surface Mine # 28
    Surface coal · Appalachian Fuels LLC · MSHA ID 1517838
    Abandoned
  116. Bear Fork
    Surface coal · Miller Brothers Coal LLC · MSHA ID 1519066
    Abandoned
  117. Bearville
    Surface coal · Pine Branch Mining LLC · MSHA ID 1519416
    Abandoned
  118. Beaver Creek Colleries
    Surface coal · Beaver Creek Colleries · MSHA ID 1515920
    Abandoned
  119. Beaver Gap
    Underground coal · Ember Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1518642
    Abandoned
  120. Beaver Gap No. 2
    Underground coal · CKJ Enterprises, Inc · MSHA ID 1518972
    Abandoned
  121. Beech Creek Job 46
    Surface coal · LCC Kentucky LLC · MSHA ID 1518173
    Abandoned
  122. Best Elkhorn Nealy Br
    Surface coal · Best Elkhorn Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515922
    Abandoned
  123. Big Branch
    Surface coal · Enterprise Mining Company LLC · MSHA ID 1518558
    Abandoned
  124. Big Branch
    Surface coal · Midwest Resources LLC · MSHA ID 1519352
    Abandoned
  125. Big Branch Mine
    Surface coal · Locust Grove Inc · MSHA ID 1518352
    Abandoned
  126. Big Branch No. 1
    Surface coal · R.E.K. Inc. · MSHA ID 1518754
    Abandoned
  127. Big Jack No 3 Surface
    Surface coal · Mac Dougald Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1511613
    Abandoned
  128. Big Spring #1
    Surface coal · Miller Brothers Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1518118
    Abandoned
  129. Big Springs #16 Mine
    Underground coal · Consol Of Kentucky Inc · MSHA ID 1517957
    Abandoned and Sealed
  130. Big Springs #17 Mine
    Underground coal · Consol Of Kentucky Inc · MSHA ID 1517996
    Abandoned and Sealed
  131. Big Springs E1 Mine
    Underground coal · Consol Of Kentucky Inc · MSHA ID 1518115
    Abandoned and Sealed
  132. Black Oak #1 Deep Mine
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510575
    Abandoned and Sealed
  133. Black Oak #10
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company L P · MSHA ID 1517592
    Abandoned and Sealed
  134. Black Oak #2 Deep Mine
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1507139
    Abandoned and Sealed
  135. Black Oak #3 Deep Mine
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510407
    Abandoned and Sealed
  136. Black Oak #4
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1502288
    Abandoned and Sealed
  137. Black Oak #6
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company L P · MSHA ID 1515730
    Abandoned and Sealed
  138. Black Oak #7
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company L P · MSHA ID 1516287
    Abandoned and Sealed
  139. Black Oak #8
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company L P · MSHA ID 1516392
    Abandoned and Sealed
  140. Black Oak #9
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company L P · MSHA ID 1512454
    Abandoned and Sealed
  141. Black Oak 1-A
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company L P · MSHA ID 1517309
    Abandoned and Sealed
  142. Black Oak 5
    Underground coal · Golden Oak Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515288
    Abandoned and Sealed
  143. Blazing Saddles Plant #1
    Facility coal · Blazing Saddles Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1516815
    Abandoned
  144. Bolen Branch #1
    Surface coal · Miller Brothers Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1518207
    Abandoned
  145. Brimstone Mine #1
    Underground coal · Knott County Mining Company · MSHA ID 1516893
    Abandoned and Sealed
  146. Bruce Branch #1
    Underground coal · Bruce Branch Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1508427
    Abandoned and Sealed
  147. Bryan D Hall
    Surface coal · Bryan D Hall · MSHA ID 1515020
    Abandoned
  148. BSD 1,LLC
    Surface coal · BSD 1,LLC · MSHA ID 1518697
    Abandoned
  149. Bubba Branch
    Surface coal · Diamond May Mining Company · MSHA ID 1517715
    Abandoned
  150. Bubba Branch
    Surface coal · Hi-Wall Mining Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 1517829
    Abandoned

…and 550 more mines not listed here.

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 856
Strip Mine 99
P1 Dangerous Slides 60
Disturbed Surface 29
P1 Portals 28
P2 Portals 27
P2 Dangerous Slides 25
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 17
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 17
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 8
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 6
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 6
P3 Other 4
P2 Clogged Streams 3
P1 Surface Burning 3
P2 Surface Burning 3
P3 Equipment Facility 3
P3 Spoil Area 3
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 2
P2 Vertical Openings 2
Strip Mine 2
P1 Underground Mine Fires 1
P2 Underground Mine Fires 1
P1 Clogged Stream Lands 1
Mine Dump 1
P3 Slump 1
Tipple 1
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 1
P3 Mine Opening 1
P3 Bench 1
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 1
P1 Clogged Streams 1
Tailings - Pond 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.