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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Webster Parish, Louisiana

Webster Parish, Louisiana has 125 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1947–1998; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 18 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Webster 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)
125
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1947–1998 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
    6 4.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    119 95.2%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Juben Gravel Pit Gravel Pit area

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned18 on register
  1. Brown Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Newt Brown Contractors · MSHA ID 1601013
    Abandoned
  2. Crichton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 1601071
    Abandoned
  3. Dist 4 Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · State Of Louisiana Dept Of Trans Dev · MSHA ID 1600788
    Abandoned
  4. Gifford-Hill Pit & Plant #27
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 1600321
    Abandoned
  5. Gray Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leon W Gray Contractor Inc · MSHA ID 1600780
    Abandoned
  6. Heflin Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 1600984
    Abandoned
  7. Madden Washer Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Madden Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600491
    Abandoned
  8. Minden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith & Mc Cain Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600982
    Abandoned
  9. Mineupdte
    Surface metal/non-metal · Braswell Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600490
    Abandoned
  10. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jernigan Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1601214
    Abandoned
  11. Plant #904 Dixie Inn
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 1601213
    Abandoned
  12. Plant No 904 Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 1601240
    Abandoned
  13. Raley Pit Washer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Madden Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 1601055
    Abandoned
  14. SIBLEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-State Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 1601305
    Abandoned
  15. Smith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Newt Brown Contractors · MSHA ID 1600981
    Abandoned
  16. Tri-State Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-State Concrete Company Inc · MSHA ID 1600781
    Abandoned
  17. Westfield Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-State Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 1601402
    Abandoned
  18. Yates Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leon W Gray Contractor Inc · MSHA ID 1601202
    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 72
Gravel Pit 42
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Strip Mine 2
Sand Pit 1
Borrow Pit 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Other counties in LouisianaAll counties →
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.