Abandoned mines in Livingston County, Kentucky

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   30 25.4%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   6 5.1%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   51 43.2%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   29 24.6%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   2 1.7%

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.

1. Dredge V

   Surface metal/non-metal · Pine Bluff Materials · MSHA ID 1519444
   Abandoned 2018-04-03
2. Elpers Stoneworks, Inc.

   Surface metal/non-metal · Elpers Stoneworks, Inc. · MSHA ID 1518921
   Abandoned 2005-12-01
3. Grand River Terminal

   Facility coal · Watco Trans Loading LLC · MSHA ID 1518234
   Abandoned 2019-07-15
4. GRT 1

   Facility coal · Carbon Recovery LLC · MSHA ID 1519769
   Abandoned 2018-03-23
5. Industrial Minerals Salem Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · Industrial Minerals Company Inc · MSHA ID 1500117
   Abandoned 1979-05-15
6. Lake City Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-South Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1518293
   Abandoned 2020-03-30
7. Lake City Mine & Mill

   Surface metal/non-metal · Lake City Mining Company · MSHA ID 1504488
   Abandoned 1985-06-14
8. Lake City Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 1518752
   Abandoned 2016-09-23
9. Lasher Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · Frontier Spar Corp · MSHA ID 1510448
   Abandoned 1979-06-15
10. O'BRYAN MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-South Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 1518294
    Abandoned 2003-12-19
11. Portable Plant #3

    Surface metal/non-metal · California Rock Crusher Corp · MSHA ID 0405714
    Abandoned 2023-10-23
12. SILVERSPAR MINERALS

    Surface metal/non-metal · Silverspar Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1517690
    Abandoned 1996-09-30

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.