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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Leslie County, Kentucky

Leslie County, Kentucky has 540 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1992, including 279 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 169 problems in the county, 105 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 411 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Leslie 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)
540
Mine openings
279
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
105
MSHA mines marked abandoned
411
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1992 169 OSMRE problems, 64 reclaimed 110 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
    311 43.9%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    245 34.6%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    10 1.4%
  4. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    21 3.0%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    122 17.2%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems169 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
23099WDLBAML (Cutshin Phase I WSP) P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Pending
Abigail Sizemore Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Asher Branch Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Asher Branch Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Asher Branch Mines P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Asher Mines-alb.gibson P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Asher Mines-alb.gibson P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Bear Branch Landslides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Bear Branch Landslides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Bear Branch Landslides P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Beatty Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Beatty Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Becky Stacey Drainage P1 Clogged Streams In Reclamation
Beech Bottom Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Beech Bottom Mines P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Betty's Branch Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Big Lute Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Bill Morton Adits P1 Portals In Reclamation
Bill Morton Adits P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bruce Mosely Landslide P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Bruce Mosely Landslide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Bullskin Slides P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Bullskin Slides P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Bullskin Slides P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Carol Begley Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Carol Begley Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Carol Keen Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Carol Sue Begley P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Carol Sue Begley P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Carol Sue Begley P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Cole Fork Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Cole Fork Mines P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Cole Fork Mines P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Collins Slides P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Collins Slides P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Cucumber Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Cutshin Complex P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Cutshin Complex P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Cutshin Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Cutshin-poundmill Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Cutshin-poundmill Mines P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Cutshin-poundmill Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Darrell Moore Ramp P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Darrell Moore Ramp P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Darrell Moore Ramp P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Darrell Moore Ramp P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Deborah Roberts P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Donald Joseph Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Dorothy Huff Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Double Branch Entries P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Double Branch Entries P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Edd Fork Mine-nantz C.c. P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Eddie Morgan Slides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Eddie Morgan Slides P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Elk Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Fern Branch Entries-slides P1 Clogged Stream Lands In Reclamation
Fern Branch Entries-slides P1 Clogged Streams In Reclamation
Fern Branch Entries-slides P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Fern Branch Entries-slides P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Frontier Nursing Slide P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
George Wooton Park Mines P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
George Wooton Park Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Ginseng Mine/nantz Coal P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Ginseng Mine/nantz Coal P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Glen Mills Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Greasy Creek Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Hals Fork Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Hardees Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Hardees Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Head Of Jones Mine P3 Bench Reclamation Pending
Head Of Jones Mine P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Hendrix Drifts P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Hendrix Drifts P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Hendrix Drifts P2 Portals In Reclamation
Hoskin Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Hoskin Mines P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Hurts Creek Mines P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Hurts Creek Mines P2 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Hurts Creek Mines P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities In Reclamation
Hurts Creek Mines P2 Portals In Reclamation
Hurts Creek Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Hurts Creek Slide P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Hyden South P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Hyden South P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Hyden South P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
James Boggs Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Jason's Branch Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Jason's Branch Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Joe Wilson Adits P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
John Hoskins Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Joseph Rose Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Kim Cornett Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Leeco Campground 2021 AMLER Project P3 Other Reclamation Pending
Lelie County Multi Sites Phase I AM P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Leslie County Connectivity & Telewo P3 Other Reclamation Pending
Leslie County Lineman Training Prog P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Levi Lewis Distrubances P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Levi Lewis Distrubances P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Lick Fork Mine P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Lick Fork Mine P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Lookout Tower Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Lucinda Branch Refuse P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Macintosh Cr Refuse Fires P2 Portals In Reclamation
Macintosh Cr Refuse Fires P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Pending
Maggard Branch Mines P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Maggard Branch Mines P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Maggard Branch Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Maggard Branch Mines P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Maggard Slide P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Maggard Slide P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Maggard Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Maggard Slide P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Marvin Howard Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Mosley-asher Ramp P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Mosley-asher Ramp P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Mosley-asher Ramp P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Mosley-asher Ramp P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending
Mosley-asher Ramp P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Muncy Landside P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Norma Harris Silt P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Norma Smith Portals P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Norma Smith Portals P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Onemile Branch Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Onemile Branch Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Onemile Branch Mines P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Osborne Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Owlsnest Br. Complex P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Owlsnest Br. Complex P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Owlsnest Br. Complex P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Owlsnest Br. Complex P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Parkway Slide P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Persimmon Fork Slide P1 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Persimmon Fork Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Ponderosa Mine P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Pre 87 P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Pre 87 P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Raymond Roark Blowout P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Raymond Roark Blowout P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Reservoir Slide P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Rhone Fork Mine P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Ricky Melton Adits P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Rodney Stidham Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Ronnie Lewis Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Roy Callahan Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Samantha Wooton Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Samantha Wooton Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Saylor Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Saylor Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Saylor Mines P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Slickrock Mine P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending

…and 19 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 Abandoned411 on register
  1. #1
    Surface coal · Roscoe Himes · MSHA ID 1514270
    Abandoned
  2. #1
    Surface coal · Davidson Mining · MSHA ID 1514485
    Abandoned
  3. #1
    Surface coal · W H D Coal Company · MSHA ID 1516718
    Abandoned
  4. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Little John Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513496
    Abandoned and Sealed
  5. #1 Mine
    Surface coal · Keith Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514172
    Abandoned
  6. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Jacks Creek Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1516553
    Abandoned and Sealed
  7. #1 Shop
    Surface coal · Chas Coal Llc · MSHA ID 1507724
    Abandoned
  8. #1 Strip
    Surface coal · C & D Coal · MSHA ID 1513907
    Abandoned
  9. #1 Strip
    Surface coal · E & M Coal Company · MSHA ID 1514248
    Abandoned
  10. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Suellen Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1512938
    Abandoned
  11. #10
    Underground coal · W & P Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517466
    Abandoned and Sealed
  12. #19 Mine
    Underground coal · Andalex Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1516609
    Abandoned and Sealed
  13. #2
    Underground coal · Kerri-Dawn Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510780
    Abandoned and Sealed
  14. #3
    Underground coal · Simpson & Brock Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1512613
    Abandoned and Sealed
  15. #3 Mine
    Underground coal · Eric Mining Incoprorated · MSHA ID 1510554
    Abandoned and Sealed
  16. #4
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1511065
    Abandoned
  17. #4
    Underground coal · LA Energy, LLC · MSHA ID 1519262
    Abandoned and Sealed
  18. #4 Prep Plant
    Facility coal · Shamrock Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513935
    Abandoned
  19. #6 Surface
    Surface coal · Hannco Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1517856
    Abandoned
  20. #7 Mine
    Underground coal · Combs & Hurley Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513058
    Abandoned and Sealed
  21. #7 Seam
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1518455
    Abandoned and Sealed
  22. #Surface
    Surface coal · Ky Mt Coal Company · MSHA ID 1512616
    Abandoned
  23. 31 Prep Plant
    Facility coal · Pine Branch Mining LLC · MSHA ID 1511903
    Abandoned
  24. Amber No 1
    Surface coal · Amber Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517337
    Abandoned
  25. American Natl Resources Mine #2
    Underground coal · American National Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1514132
    Abandoned and Sealed
  26. Army Trail #1
    Surface coal · Noble Construction · MSHA ID 1519679
    Abandoned
  27. Auger Mine #11
    Surface coal · B & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517273
    Abandoned
  28. Auger Mine No30
    Surface coal · B & H Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 1518462
    Abandoned
  29. Austin Coal Inc #1
    Surface coal · Austin Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1518336
    Abandoned
  30. Bear Branch
    Surface coal · Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1519301
    Abandoned and Sealed
  31. Bear Branch #1
    Surface coal · Ikerd-Bandy Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517004
    Abandoned
  32. Beech No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Mines & Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1508599
    Abandoned
  33. Beechfork
    Surface coal · Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1518006
    Abandoned
  34. Begley Resources #1
    Surface coal · T & T Energy, LLC · MSHA ID 1519550
    Abandoned
  35. Big Laurel #3
    Surface coal · Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1517853
    Abandoned
  36. C&C No 2
    Underground coal · E M R Coal Company · MSHA ID 1514175
    Abandoned and Sealed
  37. Calvary No. 80
    Underground coal · Blue Diamond Coal Company · MSHA ID 1516349
    Abandoned and Sealed
  38. Cardinal #3
    Underground coal · Cardinal Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1513082
    Abandoned and Sealed
  39. Chaney Creek #5
    Underground coal · Chaney Creek Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1514558
    Abandoned and Sealed
  40. Cherry Creek #2 Strip
    Surface coal · Cherry Creek Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1511758
    Abandoned
  41. Clay Gap Mine
    Surface coal · Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1514049
    Abandoned
  42. Coon Creek Mine
    Surface coal · Carroll Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513726
    Abandoned
  43. Copeland Mine
    Surface coal · Cyprus Cumberland Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1517340
    Abandoned
  44. Copeland Seam
    Surface coal · Bledsoe Coal Corporation · MSHA ID 1518945
    Abandoned
  45. Cr #22
    Underground coal · Cardinal Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1514525
    Abandoned and Sealed
  46. Crs No 2
    Surface coal · C R S Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1512892
    Abandoned
  47. D-3 Oldhouse
    Underground coal · Revelation Energy, LLC · MSHA ID 1519384
    Abandoned and Sealed
  48. Dollar Branch Coal Corp
    Underground coal · Dollar Branch Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1513200
    Abandoned and Sealed
  49. Dollar Branch Mine
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Corporation · MSHA ID 1519135
    Abandoned
  50. Feds Creek Mine
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1517961
    Abandoned
  51. Fossil Mining International Inc #1
    Underground coal · Fossil Mining International Inc · MSHA ID 1510635
    Abandoned and Sealed
  52. Fourleaf No 1 Or No 1
    Underground coal · Fourleaf Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510812
    Abandoned
  53. Frontier Coals Inc #1
    Underground coal · Frontier Coals Inc · MSHA ID 1504374
    Abandoned
  54. Frontier Coals Inc Mine #2
    Underground coal · Frontier Coals Inc · MSHA ID 1504375
    Abandoned
  55. Glencoe Miners Inc
    Underground coal · Kentucky Gem Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513898
    Abandoned and Sealed
  56. Glencoe Miners Mine #3
    Surface coal · Kentucky Gem Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513727
    Abandoned
  57. Golden #1
    Surface coal · Colter & Perry Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514169
    Abandoned
  58. Greasy Creek #16
    Underground coal · Calvary Coal Company, Inc · MSHA ID 1517695
    Abandoned and Sealed
  59. Hazard 4a West Faceup
    Surface coal · Cyprus Cumberland Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1517591
    Abandoned
  60. Hurricane Mine
    Surface coal · Aaron Coal Company, LLC · MSHA ID 1518450
    Abandoned
  61. Hwm Job #19
    Surface coal · Addington Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1517950
    Abandoned
  62. Hyd No 5
    Surface coal · Island Fork Construction Ltd · MSHA ID 1518438
    Abandoned
  63. Hyde Coal
    Surface coal · Hyde Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1512261
    Abandoned
  64. Hyden Coal Shipping
    Surface coal · Transcoal Company · MSHA ID 1511112
    Abandoned
  65. Hyden Development East #1
    Surface coal · Hyden Development East · MSHA ID 1519808
    Abandoned
  66. Hyden Spur #16
    Surface coal · B&W Resources Inc. · MSHA ID 1519764
    Abandoned
  67. Jeanna Corp Mine #7
    Underground coal · Jeanna Corp · MSHA ID 1513643
    Abandoned and Sealed
  68. Joc No 6 Surface
    Underground coal · Joc Coal Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1509510
    Abandoned
  69. Johns Creek No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Miricoal Contractors · MSHA ID 1511582
    Abandoned
  70. K-3 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Appalachian Fuels Llc · MSHA ID 1518400
    Abandoned
  71. L & B #1
    Underground coal · L & B Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1512149
    Abandoned and Sealed
  72. Laurel Fork No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Wells Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1511606
    Abandoned
  73. Laurel Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Dollar Branch Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1511445
    Abandoned
  74. Lazy Seven No 2 Mine
    Underground coal · Lazy Seven Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1511256
    Abandoned
  75. Leeco Inc No 22
    Underground coal · Leeco Inc · MSHA ID 1510278
    Abandoned and Sealed
  76. Lena Coal Co
    Underground coal · Lena Coal Company · MSHA ID 1513017
    Abandoned and Sealed
  77. Leslie #1
    Surface coal · Winston Ford Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513602
    Abandoned
  78. Leslie #4
    Surface coal · Stansbury & Company Inc · MSHA ID 1512707
    Abandoned
  79. Leslie Co #1 Strip
    Surface coal · Ikerd-Bandy Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516333
    Abandoned
  80. Leslie Co Surface #1
    Surface coal · Kentucky Gem Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513187
    Abandoned
  81. Leslie County #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Gold Dust Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513893
    Abandoned
  82. Leslie County Augers
    Surface coal · Goldens Creek Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1518020
    Abandoned
  83. Leslie County No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Four M Coal & Energy Company Inc · MSHA ID 1512186
    Abandoned
  84. Leslie County Surface
    Surface coal · Tesoro Coal Company · MSHA ID 1509528
    Abandoned
  85. Leslie No 3
    Surface coal · Stansbury & Company Inc · MSHA ID 1508838
    Abandoned
  86. Lewis Creek No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Dollar Branch Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1510798
    Abandoned and Sealed
  87. Lewis Creek Surface
    Surface coal · Associated Contracting, LLC · MSHA ID 1518828
    Abandoned
  88. Little Ruth Mine
    Underground coal · Xacron Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1508592
    Abandoned
  89. Long Branch Road Job
    Surface coal · Whymore Coal Company Incorporated · MSHA ID 1519036
    Abandoned
  90. Low Gap
    Surface coal · Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1517818
    Abandoned
  91. Maggard Mine
    Surface coal · Kentucky Surface Miners Inc · MSHA ID 1509685
    Abandoned
  92. Marion Branch
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Corporation · MSHA ID 1519113
    Abandoned
  93. Marrowbone
    Surface coal · Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1519551
    Abandoned and Sealed
  94. Mary Beth Mine
    Underground coal · Mary Beth Coal Corp Inc · MSHA ID 1510089
    Abandoned
  95. Mine #1
    Underground coal · Asher & Robinson Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1512556
    Abandoned and Sealed
  96. Mine #1
    Underground coal · K A M Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513710
    Abandoned and Sealed
  97. Mine #1
    Surface coal · Seiko Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1516081
    Abandoned
  98. Mine #1
    Surface coal · Amber Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517817
    Abandoned
  99. Mine #1 Little Sunshine Energies In
    Underground coal · Little Sunshine Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1513316
    Abandoned and Sealed
  100. Mine #12
    Underground coal · Andalex Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1514160
    Abandoned and Sealed
  101. Mine #2
    Underground coal · Eric Mining Incoprorated · MSHA ID 1512151
    Abandoned and Sealed
  102. Mine #2
    Underground coal · Asher-Robinson Enterprise Inc · MSHA ID 1512557
    Abandoned and Sealed
  103. Mine #23
    Underground coal · Cardinal Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1514517
    Abandoned and Sealed
  104. Mine #30
    Underground coal · R & R Mining, Inc. · MSHA ID 1514057
    Abandoned and Sealed
  105. Mine #4
    Underground coal · Bituminous-Laurel Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1513122
    Abandoned and Sealed
  106. Mine #5
    Surface coal · Mountain Source Energy, LLC · MSHA ID 1519485
    Abandoned
  107. Mine #6
    Surface coal · Leslie Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1514394
    Abandoned
  108. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Beech Fork Coal Co · MSHA ID 1503769
    Abandoned
  109. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1508077
    Abandoned and Sealed
  110. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · April Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1511776
    Abandoned and Sealed
  111. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Lakeside Energy · MSHA ID 1512016
    Abandoned and Sealed
  112. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Southfork Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1517808
    Abandoned and Sealed
  113. Mine No 1
    Surface coal · H & R Coal Company · MSHA ID 1518751
    Abandoned
  114. Mine No 11
    Underground coal · W & P Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517810
    Abandoned and Sealed
  115. Mine No 14
    Underground coal · Cardinal Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1507034
    Abandoned
  116. Mine No 2
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1508047
    Abandoned and Sealed
  117. Mine No 260
    Surface coal · Manning Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1507259
    Abandoned
  118. Mine No 3
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Deep Mining Company · MSHA ID 1511981
    Abandoned and Sealed
  119. Mine No 4
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1511630
    Abandoned and Sealed
  120. Mine No 9
    Surface coal · New Millennia Mining LLC · MSHA ID 4003214
    Abandoned
  121. Miniard Branch Mine
    Underground coal · Bledsoe Coal Corporation · MSHA ID 1519579
    Abandoned
  122. Muncy Branch
    Underground coal · Carroll Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513768
    Abandoned and Sealed
  123. Narrow Branch
    Surface coal · Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · MSHA ID 1518932
    Abandoned
  124. No 1
    Underground coal · B & G Greenbriar Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1508311
    Abandoned
  125. No 1
    Underground coal · B & B Coal Company · MSHA ID 1508617
    Abandoned
  126. No 1
    Underground coal · D J & M Coal Company · MSHA ID 1508804
    Abandoned
  127. No 1
    Underground coal · Sam Wooton Coal Company · MSHA ID 1508987
    Abandoned
  128. No 1
    Underground coal · C & W Coal Company · MSHA ID 1509738
    Abandoned and Sealed
  129. No 1
    Underground coal · Spike Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1509774
    Abandoned and Sealed
  130. No 1
    Underground coal · G A J K Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1510340
    Abandoned and Sealed
  131. No 1
    Underground coal · Simpson & Brock Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1510411
    Abandoned and Sealed
  132. No 1
    Underground coal · Coal Field Coal Company · MSHA ID 1510894
    Abandoned and Sealed
  133. No 1
    Surface coal · Myrtice Coal Company · MSHA ID 1511649
    Abandoned
  134. No 1
    Underground coal · Hunsaker Coal Company · MSHA ID 1511770
    Abandoned and Sealed
  135. No 1
    Underground coal · Woco Inc · MSHA ID 1512308
    Abandoned
  136. No 1
    Underground coal · Lynn Dale Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513341
    Abandoned and Sealed
  137. No 1
    Surface coal · Gulf Southland Corp Inc · MSHA ID 1513357
    Abandoned
  138. No 1
    Underground coal · Hot Rocks Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513426
    Abandoned
  139. No 1
    Underground coal · Pixie Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1513461
    Abandoned and Sealed
  140. No 1
    Underground coal · A B C Coal Company · MSHA ID 1513761
    Abandoned and Sealed
  141. No 1
    Surface coal · C R S Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1514221
    Abandoned
  142. No 1
    Underground coal · C & F Coal Company · MSHA ID 1514348
    Abandoned and Sealed
  143. No 1
    Underground coal · Doc Coal Company · MSHA ID 1514459
    Abandoned and Sealed
  144. No 1
    Surface coal · Mountain Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514565
    Abandoned
  145. No 1
    Surface coal · J & H Construction · MSHA ID 1514740
    Abandoned
  146. No 1
    Surface coal · A D & B Mining Company · MSHA ID 1514834
    Abandoned
  147. No 1
    Surface coal · Bonanza Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514934
    Abandoned
  148. No 1
    Surface coal · Emmia Neace · MSHA ID 1514968
    Abandoned
  149. No 1
    Underground coal · Shackleford Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1515001
    Abandoned and Sealed
  150. No 1
    Surface coal · Garland Sizemore · MSHA ID 1515201
    Abandoned

…and 261 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 279
Strip Mine 243
P1 Dangerous Slides 39
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 27
P2 Dangerous Slides 18
P2 Portals 17
P1 Portals 14
Tipple 13
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 9
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 7
P1 Clogged Streams 5
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 4
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 4
P2 Clogged Streams 4
P2 Surface Burning 3
P3 Other 3
Settling Pond 2
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 2
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 2
Strip Mine 2
P1 Clogged Stream Lands 2
P1 Vertical Openings 1
P3 Mine Opening 1
P3 Spoil Area 1
P3 Equipment Facility 1
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
P3 Bench 1
P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 1
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 1
Tailings - Pond 1
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 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.