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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Camden County, Missouri

Camden County, Missouri has 14 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1933–1983; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 22 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Camden 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)
14
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1933–1983 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
    11 78.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    3 21.4%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Hunter Lead 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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned22 on register
  1. CAMDEN CO RD & BRIDGE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Camden County Road & Bridge · MSHA ID 2302085
    Abandoned
  2. Camden County Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Midwest Stone LLC · MSHA ID 2302328
    Abandoned
  3. Camdenton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beavers Stone Company · MSHA ID 2301811
    Abandoned
  4. CEC Plant #2-Ser #99515
    Surface metal/non-metal · Magruder Limestone Co Inc · MSHA ID 2302408
    Abandoned
  5. Cedar Heights Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC-Missouri Inc · MSHA ID 2302310
    Abandoned
  6. Evans Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Evans Gravel · MSHA ID 2301805
    Abandoned
  7. Evans Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Evans Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2301999
    Abandoned
  8. Jones Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ozark Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301097
    Abandoned
  9. Lake Ozark Sand & Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lake Ozark Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2302260
    Abandoned
  10. Linn Creek Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Linn Creek Quarries · MSHA ID 2302028
    Abandoned
  11. Morgan Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morgan Gravel Service · MSHA ID 2301806
    Abandoned
  12. Nelson W Owen Gravel Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelson W Owen Materials · MSHA ID 2301438
    Abandoned
  13. One Source Rockworks LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · One Source Rock Works, LLC · MSHA ID 2302535
    Abandoned
  14. Osage Mine & Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · Osage Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 2301174
    Abandoned
  15. PLANT #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Missouri Inc · MSHA ID 2301695
    Abandoned
  16. Portable Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lake Ozark Construction Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2301997
    Abandoned
  17. Rip Rap Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Magruder Limestone Co Inc · MSHA ID 2302263
    Abandoned
  18. Rip Rap Plant 2
    Facility metal/non-metal · Horseshoe Bend Dock & Rip Rap Service · MSHA ID 2302486
    Abandoned
  19. Scotts Concrete
    Facility metal/non-metal · Dredging Inc/ dba Scotts Concrete · MSHA ID 2302600
    Abandoned
  20. Stingray Airport Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stingray Corp. · MSHA ID 2302316
    Abandoned
  21. Turner'S Ozark Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ben Turner Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301584
    Abandoned
  22. WILKERSON EXCAVATING INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilkerson Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 2301645
    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
Open Pit Mine 5
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Quarry 2
Gravel Pit 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.