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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Pike County, Kentucky

Pike County, Kentucky has 2,690 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1915–2001, including 1,713 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 45 prospect pits; 2 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 674 problems in the county, 338 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 2,720 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Pike 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)
2,690
Mine openings
1,713
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
338
MSHA mines marked abandoned
2,720
2 features carry a name45 prospect pits30 quadrangle maps, published 1915–2001 674 OSMRE problems, 336 reclaimed 1,030 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
    1,917 57.0%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    45 1.3%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    868 25.8%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    2 0.1%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    57 1.7%
  6. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    63 1.9%
  7. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    412 12.2%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Allegheny Mine Adit
Allegheny Mine Open Pit Mine

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 problems674 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Aaron Hall Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Abner Mtn Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Adlai Dotson Drainage P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Aflex Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Aflex Mines P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Aflex Mines P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Aflex Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Airport Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Andrew Scott Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Andrew Scott Drainage P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Anthony Huffman Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Ashcamp Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Ashcamp Slide P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Ashcamp Slide P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Ashcamp Slide P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Ashcamp Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
B. Fields P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
B. Fields P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Bad Fork Road Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Ball Fork Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Barker Adits P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Barker Adits P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Barker Adits P1 Portals In Reclamation
Barrenshee Cr. Mines P1 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Barrenshee Cr. Mines P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Barrenshee Cr. Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Barrenshee Cr. Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Barrenshee Cr. Mines P2 Portals In Reclamation
Belfry Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Belfry Landslide P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Belfry Landslide P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bennett Scales P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Bent Br.-ashland M&d Bf P3 Bench Reclamation Completed
Bent Br.-ashland M&d Bf P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Bent Branch-route 468 Drifts P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Bent Branch-route 468 Drifts P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Bent Branch-route 468 Drifts P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Bent Branch-route 468 Drifts P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Bent Branch-route 468 Drifts P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Bent Branch-route 468 Drifts P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Bent Branch-route 468 Drifts P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Betty Gillespie Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Big Branch Gob P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Big Branch Gob P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Big Branch Gob P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Big Creek - Harris Fire P2 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Pending
Big Creek Refuse Fire P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Big Creek Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Big Hackney Blow-out P1 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Billy Buchanan Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Blackberry School Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Board Tree Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Board Tree Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Board Tree Mines P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Bobby Smith Breaks P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Boldman Slides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Bowling Fork Refuse P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Bowling Fork Refuse P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Pending
Bradford Bentley Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Bradford Bentley Slide P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Brenda Phillips Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Brian & Tessy Williamson Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Brian & Tessy Williamson Slide P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Buckley Creek Water Supply P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Bucklick Fork Gob P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Bucklick Fork Gob P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Bucklick Fork Gob P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Bucklick Fork Gob P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Bud & Sharon Dotson Slide & Portals P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Bud & Sharon Dotson Slide & Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bud Coleman P2 Portals In Reclamation
Buskirk Mines P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Buskirk Mines P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Buskirk Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Buskirk/blackberry Ck Ws P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Buskirk/blackberry Ck Ws P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Calloway Branch Drifts P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Card Creek Complex P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Card Creek Complex P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Card Creek Complex P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Card Creek Complex P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Card Creek Complex P2 Portals In Reclamation
Carla Adams Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Carla Adams Slide P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Carter Portals P1 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Carter Portals P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Carter Portals P1 Portals In Reclamation
Cedar Creek Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Cedar Creek Slide P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Chapman Fork Mines P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Chapman Fork Mines P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Chapman Fork Mines P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Chapman Fork Mines P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Chapman Fork Mines P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Chapman Fork Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Chapman Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Charles Atkinson Subsidence P1 Subsidence In Reclamation
Chloe Creek Wtr Sup. P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Chloe Gap Slide P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Clement Tackett Highwall & Portals P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Clement Tackett Highwall & Portals P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Clement Tackett Highwall & Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Clement Tackett Highwall & Portals P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Culler Branch Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Damon Hamby Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Damron Branch Slide P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Damron Branch Slide P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Damron Branch Slide P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Damron Branch Slide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Dan Cassell Portal P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Dan Patierno Drainage P1 Portals In Reclamation
Daniels Branch Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Daniels Branch Slide P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Danny Smith Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Danny Swafford Adits P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Danny Swafford Adits P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
David & Rose Anderson Drainage P2 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
David Maynard Adits P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
David Mcchesney Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
David Romans Portal P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Dawn Pinson Portal P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Dean Hunt Adits P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Dean Hunt Adits P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Dean Hunt Adits P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Dean Hunt Adits P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Dean Tackett Openings P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Dean Tackett Openings P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Deborah Belcher Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Dix Fork P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Dolph Kelly Portals P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Dolph Kelly Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Don Newsome Portals P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Donna Baker Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Donna Baker Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Donna Ratliff Slide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Dorothy Hager Portal P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Dorothy Hager Portal P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Drewie May Openings P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Drewie May Openings P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Dry Creek Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Dry Creek Landslide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Dry Creek Landslide P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
East Board Tree Mine P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
East Board Tree Mine P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
East Board Tree Mine P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Eddie Downey Drainage P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Edgar Hill Adits P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Edgar Hill Adits P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Edith Goins Adits P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Edmiston Subsidence P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed

…and 524 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 Abandoned2,720 on register
  1. # 1
    Surface coal · F.D. Justice, II LLC · MSHA ID 1518655
    Abandoned
  2. # 2 Seam Elkhorn
    Surface coal · Mountain Top Hydroseeding · MSHA ID 1519381
    Abandoned
  3. # 4
    Underground coal · Inspiration Resources Inc. · MSHA ID 1519208
    Abandoned and Sealed
  4. # 5
    Underground coal · Bee B & B, LLC · MSHA ID 1515215
    Abandoned and Sealed
  5. #1
    Underground coal · Cheyenne Coal Company · MSHA ID 1506730
    Abandoned and Sealed
  6. #1
    Underground coal · Zulu Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1513295
    Abandoned and Sealed
  7. #1
    Underground coal · Ashcamp Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1515532
    Abandoned and Sealed
  8. #1
    Underground coal · Misty Mineral Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516255
    Abandoned
  9. #1
    Surface coal · Missy Elkhorn Inc · MSHA ID 1516842
    Abandoned
  10. #1
    Underground coal · Cherokee Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516868
    Abandoned and Sealed
  11. #1
    Underground coal · Quad Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516874
    Abandoned and Sealed
  12. #1
    Surface coal · Blue Ridge Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1517279
    Abandoned
  13. #1
    Underground coal · Patrick Processing L L C · MSHA ID 1517813
    Abandoned
  14. #1
    Surface coal · C & K Augering Inc · MSHA ID 1518055
    Abandoned
  15. #1
    Surface coal · Major Elkhorn Mining Company LLC · MSHA ID 1518821
    Abandoned
  16. #1
    Underground coal · Midgard Mining Co., LLC · MSHA ID 1518827
    Abandoned and Sealed
  17. #1
    Underground coal · TLT Resources Corporation · MSHA ID 1519246
    Abandoned and Sealed
  18. #1 Auger
    Surface coal · Shelma Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515779
    Abandoned
  19. #1 C-Mine
    Underground coal · Hill Top Mining Co Inc · MSHA ID 1506731
    Abandoned and Sealed
  20. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Varney & Thacker Coal Company · MSHA ID 1501860
    Abandoned
  21. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Lenard Mining Company · MSHA ID 1509937
    Abandoned
  22. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · C & R Mining Company · MSHA ID 1511274
    Abandoned
  23. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Road Fork Development Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517352
    Abandoned and Sealed
  24. #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Dynasty Mining Inc. · MSHA ID 1519153
    Abandoned and Sealed
  25. #1 Pit
    Surface coal · Cheyenne Mining INC. · MSHA ID 1519648
    Abandoned
  26. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Bilton Maynard Coal Company · MSHA ID 1516228
    Abandoned
  27. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Blackheart Inc · MSHA ID 1517137
    Abandoned
  28. #1 Surface
    Surface coal · Corbin Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 1517363
    Abandoned
  29. #1-Mine
    Underground coal · El Producto Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1506732
    Abandoned
  30. #1-Strip
    Surface coal · R & S Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517484
    Abandoned
  31. #10
    Underground coal · Cheyenne Elkhorn Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 1517266
    Abandoned and Sealed
  32. #103 Mine
    Underground coal · Birchfield & Adkins Coal Co · MSHA ID 1501440
    Abandoned
  33. #105
    Surface coal · Chloe Ridge Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516277
    Abandoned
  34. #14 Mine
    Underground coal · Thorpe & Farley Coal Company · MSHA ID 1501838
    Abandoned
  35. #14 Surface
    Surface coal · Peter Fork Mining Company · MSHA ID 1511484
    Abandoned
  36. #19 Mine
    Underground coal · Potter Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1501582
    Abandoned
  37. #2
    Underground coal · Preece Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1509502
    Abandoned and Sealed
  38. #2
    Underground coal · Ro-Ann Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1515612
    Abandoned and Sealed
  39. #2
    Underground coal · Brushy Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1516238
    Abandoned and Sealed
  40. #2
    Underground coal · J & R Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1516646
    Abandoned and Sealed
  41. #2
    Underground coal · Reliant Contracting, LLC · MSHA ID 1516855
    Abandoned
  42. #2
    Underground coal · Quad Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517270
    Abandoned and Sealed
  43. #2
    Underground coal · Stanmark Mining, Inc. · MSHA ID 1518177
    Abandoned
  44. #2 Loadout
    Facility coal · Sunnyside Kentucky Inc · MSHA ID 1512795
    Abandoned
  45. #2 Mine
    Facility coal · Federal Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517178
    Abandoned
  46. #2 Strip
    Surface coal · Jasper Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1517052
    Abandoned
  47. #2 Surface
    Surface coal · Whitt Coal Company · MSHA ID 1506740
    Abandoned
  48. #2 Surface
    Surface coal · Britestar Mining Incorported · MSHA ID 1516229
    Abandoned
  49. #2 Surface
    Surface coal · Hawkeye Services Corp · MSHA ID 1516395
    Abandoned
  50. #2 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Appalachian Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 1519362
    Abandoned
  51. #2-L
    Underground coal · Jena Coal Company · MSHA ID 1506822
    Abandoned
  52. #22 Mine
    Underground coal · Elk Branch Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1501518
    Abandoned
  53. #24
    Underground coal · CAM Mining LLC · MSHA ID 1518838
    Abandoned
  54. #25
    Underground coal · CAM Mining LLC · MSHA ID 1518874
    Abandoned
  55. #3
    Underground coal · Jamboree Coals Inc · MSHA ID 1514583
    Abandoned and Sealed
  56. #3
    Underground coal · A & A Francis Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1515746
    Abandoned and Sealed
  57. #3
    Underground coal · Linn Branch Coal Incorporated · MSHA ID 1519032
    Abandoned and Sealed
  58. #3
    Surface coal · PIA Company Inc · MSHA ID 1519142
    Abandoned
  59. #3
    Underground coal · B & K Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1519414
    Abandoned
  60. #3 Surface
    Surface coal · Elkhorn Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1515933
    Abandoned
  61. #304a Mine
    Underground coal · Johnson & Johnson Coal Company · MSHA ID 1504151
    Abandoned
  62. #31
    Underground coal · McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1519492
    Abandoned and Sealed
  63. #4
    Underground coal · South Akers Mining LLC · MSHA ID 1513906
    Abandoned and Sealed
  64. #4
    Underground coal · Elkhorn Eagle Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1514508
    Abandoned and Sealed
  65. #4
    Underground coal · South Fork Energies Inc · MSHA ID 1516102
    Abandoned and Sealed
  66. #4
    Underground coal · Oakwood Mining Company · MSHA ID 1516607
    Abandoned and Sealed
  67. #4
    Underground coal · Misty Mountain Mining, Inc. · MSHA ID 1516643
    Abandoned and Sealed
  68. #4
    Underground coal · Cheyenne Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517246
    Abandoned and Sealed
  69. #4
    Underground coal · Midgard Mining Co., LLC · MSHA ID 1519204
    Abandoned and Sealed
  70. #4 Mine
    Underground coal · Simpson Coal Company · MSHA ID 1501784
    Abandoned
  71. #4 Mine
    Underground coal · Top Gun Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517066
    Abandoned and Sealed
  72. #4026
    Surface coal · Peter Fork Mining Company · MSHA ID 1518802
    Abandoned
  73. #5
    Underground coal · Ramblin Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516104
    Abandoned and Sealed
  74. #5
    Underground coal · Elkhorn Eagle Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517195
    Abandoned and Sealed
  75. #5
    Underground coal · Cheyenne Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517760
    Abandoned and Sealed
  76. #6 Mine
    Underground coal · Peerless Coal Company · MSHA ID 1501724
    Abandoned
  77. #6 Mine
    Underground coal · Triple C Coal Company · MSHA ID 1510637
    Abandoned and Sealed
  78. #60 Mine
    Underground coal · Little Hackney Creek Coal Company · MSHA ID 1511222
    Abandoned and Sealed
  79. #7
    Underground coal · J & H Coal Company · MSHA ID 1517024
    Abandoned and Sealed
  80. #7
    Underground coal · Viper Coal, LLC · MSHA ID 1519390
    Abandoned
  81. #7 Mine
    Underground coal · May & Bevins Coal Company · MSHA ID 1501681
    Abandoned
  82. #8
    Underground coal · Kiser Brothers Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515217
    Abandoned and Sealed
  83. #8
    Underground coal · J & H Coal Company · MSHA ID 1516738
    Abandoned and Sealed
  84. #8
    Underground coal · AEP Kentucky Coal, L. L. C. · MSHA ID 1517893
    Abandoned and Sealed
  85. #8 Mine
    Underground coal · May & Bevins Coal Company · MSHA ID 1503995
    Abandoned
  86. #8-B
    Underground coal · Mc Coy Elkhorn Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1514814
    Abandoned and Sealed
  87. #8a
    Underground coal · C & N Coal Company · MSHA ID 1516337
    Abandoned and Sealed
  88. #9 Mine
    Underground coal · Leigh Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1501632
    Abandoned
  89. #93 Mine
    Underground coal · Coleman & Runyon Coal Company · MSHA ID 1501508
    Abandoned
  90. #9a Mine
    Underground coal · Mc Coy Elkhorn Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1515993
    Abandoned and Sealed
  91. #P 5 Surface
    Surface coal · Big D Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516472
    Abandoned
  92. 1
    Underground coal · Firestone Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1513808
    Abandoned and Sealed
  93. 1
    Underground coal · Firestone Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1517274
    Abandoned and Sealed
  94. 1
    Underground coal · Dusty Diamond Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 1517412
    Abandoned and Sealed
  95. 1
    Underground coal · Sister Bear Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1517919
    Abandoned and Sealed
  96. 1
    Underground coal · PLATINUM ENERGY LLC · MSHA ID 1519057
    Abandoned and Sealed
  97. 1-L Mine
    Underground coal · Adams Branch Coal Co · MSHA ID 1501570
    Abandoned
  98. 126a
    Underground coal · Reynolds Mining Company · MSHA ID 1504317
    Abandoned
  99. 18 Mine
    Underground coal · Kermit France Coal Company · MSHA ID 1502652
    Abandoned
  100. 1a
    Underground coal · Big Hill Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1510449
    Abandoned
  101. 2
    Underground coal · Narrows Branch Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1517729
    Abandoned and Sealed
  102. 2-B Mine
    Underground coal · Justice & Murphy Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1502433
    Abandoned
  103. 2-L Mine
    Underground coal · Cantrell Coal Company · MSHA ID 1501642
    Abandoned
  104. 211
    Underground coal · Centerline Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1511986
    Abandoned and Sealed
  105. 213 Mine
    Underground coal · Mary Ann Coal Company · MSHA ID 1504150
    Abandoned
  106. 3
    Underground coal · Mouthcard Development Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515590
    Abandoned and Sealed
  107. 3 Mile
    Surface coal · Goldens Creek Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1518123
    Abandoned
  108. 3-L
    Underground coal · Enduro Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1515149
    Abandoned and Sealed
  109. 302 Mine
    Underground coal · Alfred Adkins Coal Co · MSHA ID 1504149
    Abandoned
  110. 3C
    Underground coal · A B & J Coal Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 1518313
    Abandoned and Sealed
  111. 4
    Underground coal · Black Energy Coal, Inc. · MSHA ID 1518130
    Abandoned and Sealed
  112. 40 C
    Surface coal · Premier Elkhorn Coal Company · MSHA ID 1519642
    Abandoned
  113. 7
    Underground coal · Black Pearl Mining, Inc. · MSHA ID 1519775
    Abandoned and Sealed
  114. 7-E
    Surface coal · Dags Branch Coal Co, Inc. · MSHA ID 1519541
    Abandoned
  115. 77 Surface
    Surface coal · Big Branch Fuel Inc · MSHA ID 1513065
    Abandoned
  116. 898-0435
    Surface coal · Tycoby Fuels Corp · MSHA ID 1517564
    Abandoned
  117. 898-0435
    Surface coal · Goldens Creek Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1517763
    Abandoned
  118. A & A Tipple
    Facility coal · Jaco Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1509625
    Abandoned
  119. A-1 Mine
    Underground coal · Trinity Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1517386
    Abandoned and Sealed
  120. ADDCAR #1
    Surface coal · KENTUCKY FUEL CORPORATION · MSHA ID 1202356
    Abandoned
  121. Akers Branch 1
    Surface coal · Franklin D Justice the II LLC · MSHA ID 1518553
    Abandoned
  122. Aldridge Branch Mine
    Underground coal · Martin County Coal Corp. · MSHA ID 1518609
    Abandoned and Sealed
  123. Allburn Tipple
    Facility coal · Rawl Sales & Processing Company · MSHA ID 1507944
    Abandoned
  124. Alma #1
    Underground coal · Laro-Lee Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1517180
    Abandoned and Sealed
  125. Alma #1
    Underground coal · Sidney Coal Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 1518248
    Abandoned
  126. Alma #3 Mine
    Underground coal · Stone Mining Company · MSHA ID 1516388
    Abandoned and Sealed
  127. Alma Mine
    Surface coal · Corbin Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516640
    Abandoned
  128. Alma No 1
    Underground coal · Jamboree Coals Inc · MSHA ID 1514646
    Abandoned and Sealed
  129. Alma Tipple
    Facility coal · Central Appalachia Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 1508348
    Abandoned
  130. Apache No 14 Mine
    Underground coal · Apache Mining Company · MSHA ID 1504550
    Abandoned and Sealed
  131. Apache No 2 Mine
    Underground coal · Apache Mining Company · MSHA ID 1507629
    Abandoned and Sealed
  132. Apache No 5-A Mine
    Underground coal · Apache Mining Company · MSHA ID 1504036
    Abandoned and Sealed
  133. Apex Tipple No. 3
    Facility coal · Apex Energy, Inc. · MSHA ID 1506370
    Abandoned
  134. Apple Branch Mine (D)
    Underground coal · Chapperal Coal Corp · MSHA ID 1512349
    Abandoned and Sealed
  135. Arnold Fork
    Underground coal · Kay & Kay Contracting, LLC · MSHA ID 1518479
    Abandoned
  136. Arnold Fork Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Enterprise Coal Company · MSHA ID 1517577
    Abandoned and Sealed
  137. Associated Mining #2 Surface
    Surface coal · Associated Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1516480
    Abandoned
  138. Auger No. 2 SN #11
    Surface coal · TLT Resources Corp. · MSHA ID 1519558
    Abandoned
  139. Auger #1
    Surface coal · Coby Inc · MSHA ID 1512744
    Abandoned
  140. Auger #1
    Surface coal · Moore Mine Service Inc · MSHA ID 1517401
    Abandoned
  141. Auger #26
    Surface coal · Augustus Augering & Contracting Inc. · MSHA ID 1202361
    Abandoned and Sealed
  142. Auger #4
    Surface coal · Coal Augering Inc · MSHA ID 1517498
    Abandoned
  143. Auger #5
    Surface coal · Coal Augering Inc · MSHA ID 1517683
    Abandoned
  144. Auger Mine #13 Jamboree
    Surface coal · B & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517461
    Abandoned
  145. Auger Mine #14
    Surface coal · B & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517473
    Abandoned
  146. Auger Mine #15
    Surface coal · B & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517502
    Abandoned
  147. Auger Mine #18
    Surface coal · B & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1517647
    Abandoned
  148. Auger Mine #27
    Surface coal · B & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1518433
    Abandoned
  149. Auger Mine No. 34
    Surface coal · B & H Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 1518538
    Abandoned
  150. Auger No 1 SN #11
    Surface coal · Mill Branch Processing Inc · MSHA ID 1519140
    Abandoned

…and 2570 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 1,700
Strip Mine 810
P1 Dangerous Slides 180
P1 Portals 119
P2 Portals 73
P2 Dangerous Slides 52
Prospect Pit 45
Tipple 39
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 39
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 30
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 22
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 18
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 18
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 18
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 17
P2 Clogged Streams 15
P2 Underground Mine Fires 12
Tailings - Pond 11
Mine Dump 11
Strip Mine 9
Air Shaft 9
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 9
Disturbed Surface 8
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 8
P2 Surface Burning 8
P3 Other 8
P1 Vertical Openings 7
P1 Clogged Stream Lands 7
P1 Surface Burning 6
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 6
P2 Vertical Openings 5
P1 Subsidence 5
P3 Mine Opening 5
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 4
P1 Clogged Streams 4
P3 Gobs 4
Mine Shaft 4
P3 Spoil Area 3
P3 Bench 3
P3 Equipment Facility 2
Quarry 2
P3 Water Problems 2
Mine Dump 1
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 1
Open Pit Mine 1
P1 Underground Mine Fires 1
Mine 1
P2 Subsidence 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.