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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Rapides Parish, Louisiana has 191 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1935–2003. MSHA's register carries 23 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Rapides Parish, 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)
191
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits20 quadrangle maps, published 1935–2003 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    55 28.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    136 71.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned23 on register
  1. BOHANNON SAND & DIRT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bohannon Sand & Dirt · MSHA ID 1600916
    Abandoned
  2. Bryan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E C Bryan · MSHA ID 1600824
    Abandoned
  3. Camp Brewer Pit District No 8
    Surface metal/non-metal · State Of Louisiana Dept Of Trans Dev · MSHA ID 1600877
    Abandoned
  4. Colfax Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri Star Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1601107
    Abandoned
  5. England Air Park Fixed Wing Project
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilbert Southern Construction · MSHA ID 1601429
    Abandoned
  6. Ferguson Pit-Dist 8
    Surface metal/non-metal · State Of Louisiana Dept Of Trans Dev · MSHA ID 1600933
    Abandoned
  7. Forest Hill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cenla Minerals LLC · MSHA ID 1601568
    Abandoned
  8. Forest Hill Plant 57
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Portland Inc · MSHA ID 1600929
    Abandoned
  9. G And F Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · G & F Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1601002
    Abandoned
  10. Glen Mora Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Industrial Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600308
    Abandoned
  11. L G Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · L G Gravel · MSHA ID 1601097
    Abandoned
  12. L I P Dirt & Trucking
    Surface metal/non-metal · L I P Dirt & Trucking · MSHA ID 1601250
    Abandoned
  13. Line Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Century Ready Mix Corp · MSHA ID 1600928
    Abandoned
  14. Longleaf Dredge & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 1600453
    Abandoned
  15. McDonald Construction Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · McDonald Construction · MSHA ID 1601122
    Abandoned
  16. MID STATE DREDGE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid State Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600364
    Abandoned
  17. Mid State Materials Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid State Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1600337
    Abandoned
  18. Paradise Aggregates Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · E & E Construction LLC · MSHA ID 1600333
    Abandoned
  19. Paradise Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louisiana Industries · MSHA ID 1601204
    Abandoned
  20. Rapides Parish Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rapides Parish Highway Department · MSHA ID 1600823
    Abandoned
  21. Seamco Pebble
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seamco Laboratories Inc · MSHA ID 1601143
    Abandoned
  22. WOODWORTH AGGREGATE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 1601038
    Abandoned
  23. Woodworth Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, LLC · MSHA ID 1601070
    Abandoned

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Gravel Pit 82
Gravel Pit 39
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 36
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 15
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Sand Pit 6
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
Disturbed Surface 2
Borrow Pit 1
Quarry - Rock 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.