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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Callaway County, Missouri

Callaway County, Missouri has 233 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1939–2000, including 2 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 75 problems in the county, 19 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Callaway 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)
233
Mine openings
2
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
19
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits23 quadrangle maps, published 1939–2000 75 OSMRE problems, 56 reclaimed 0 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
    8 2.6%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    49 15.9%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    182 59.1%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    18 5.8%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    1 0.3%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    50 16.2%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems75 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Callaway P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Callaway P3 Pits In Reclamation
Callaway P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Case-rex P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Case-rex P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Case-rex P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Case-rex P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Case-rex P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
Cross-mitchell & Tipple P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Cross-mitchell & Tipple P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Cross-mitchell & Tipple P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Cross-mitchell & Tipple P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Cross-mitchell & Tipple P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Cross-mitchell & Tipple P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Cross-mitchell & Tipple P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Cross-mitchell & Tipple P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Fulton P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Fulton P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Fulton P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Fulton P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments In Reclamation
Fulton P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Fulton P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Fulton P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Guerrant P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Hammett-means P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Hammett-means P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Hammett-means P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Hammett-means P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Hammett-means P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Hammett-means P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Hammett-means P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Hammett-means P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Hillers Creek P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Hillers Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Hillers Creek P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Hillers Creek P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Hillers Creek P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Lost Dog P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Lost Dog P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lost Dog P3 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Lost Dog P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Lost Dog P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Manacle Creek P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Manacle Creek P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Manacle Creek P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Manacle Creek P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Manacle Creek P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Manacle Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Millersburg P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Millersburg P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Millersburg P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Millersburg P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Millersburg P3 Other Reclamation Pending
Millersburg P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Millersburg P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Millersburg P3 Water Problems In Reclamation
S.w. Fulton Subsidence P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
S.w. Fulton Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
S.w. Fulton Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
S.w. Fulton Subsidence P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
S.w. Fulton Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
S.w. Fulton Subsidence P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Smith Creek P3 Haul Road Reclamation Pending
Smith Creek P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Smith Creek P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Smith Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Tennyson P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments In Reclamation
Tennyson P2 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Upper Cedar Creek-calco P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Upper Cedar Creek-calco P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Upper Cedar Creek-calco P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Westminster P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Westminster P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Westminster P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Westminster P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation

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 Abandoned20 on register
  1. 94 Quarry & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jeff-Cole Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2301712
    Abandoned
  2. A P Green Refractories Fulton Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · A P Green Refractories Inc · MSHA ID 2301622
    Abandoned
  3. Auxvasse Stone & Gravel Co
    Surface metal/non-metal · Auxvasse Stone & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 2300009
    Abandoned
  4. Callaway Material Processing Facility
    Facility metal/non-metal · Daniel International Corp · MSHA ID 2301617
    Abandoned
  5. Capital Materials Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301810
    Abandoned
  6. Capitol Sand Co Dredge No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301718
    Abandoned
  7. Chiles Works LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid Mo Mining LLC · MSHA ID 2302188
    Abandoned
  8. Dredge #6001 (Pipeliner)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302019
    Abandoned
  9. Dredge #6025 (Sandy K)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 2300698
    Abandoned
  10. Dredge #6030
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301296
    Abandoned
  11. DREDGE #6040 (KATHY LEE)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 2302141
    Abandoned
  12. Gibony Mine Strip
    Surface coal · Clayton - Hensley Coal Company · MSHA ID 2300466
    Abandoned
  13. Government Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C-E Refractories · MSHA ID 2301495
    Abandoned
  14. H And W Refractories Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Harbison-Walker Refractories U S · MSHA ID 2301039
    Abandoned
  15. Harris Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C-E Refractories · MSHA ID 2300844
    Abandoned
  16. Jameson Clay Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harbison-Walker Refractories U S · MSHA ID 2300335
    Abandoned
  17. Jeff Cole #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jeff-Cole Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2301838
    Abandoned
  18. Martin Creacy And Brooks Strip Mines
    Surface coal · Clayton - Hensley Coal Company · MSHA ID 2300385
    Abandoned
  19. Martinsburg Limestone Quarry & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martinsburg Limestone Company · MSHA ID 2300137
    Abandoned
  20. Reighley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harbison-Walker Refractories U S · MSHA ID 2300332
    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
Clay Pit 145
Strip Mine 39
Quarry 23
P3 Spoil Area 9
Clay Pit 9
P3 Pits 8
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 7
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 7
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 6
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 6
Quarry 4
P3 Other 3
P3 High Wall 3
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 3
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 3
P3 Water Problems 2
P1 Vertical Openings 2
P3 Haul Road 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine 2
Adit 2
P2 Vertical Openings 2
P3 Gobs 2
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 2
Strip Mine 2
P2 Subsidence 1
P2 Portals 1
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
P3 Mine Opening 1
Disturbed Surface 1
P3 Slump 1
P2 Clogged Streams 1
P1 Portals 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Other counties in MissouriAll 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.