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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Jackson County, Missouri

Jackson County, Missouri has 144 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1934–1996, including 15 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 37 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Jackson 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)
144
Mine openings
15
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
37
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1934–1996 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
    15 10.4%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    40 27.8%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    89 61.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned37 on register
  1. 87th St Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Turkey Creek Properties LLC · MSHA ID 2302597
    Abandoned
  2. Beyer Underground Quarry
    Underground metal/non-metal · Beyer Crushed Rock Company · MSHA ID 2300020
    Abandoned
  3. Blue Valley No 2 Mine And Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · Blue Valley Crushed Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 2300103
    Abandoned
  4. Callaway Mine And Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · Callaway Mining Company · MSHA ID 2300032
    Abandoned
  5. COURTNEY RIDGE PLANT
    Underground metal/non-metal · Talon Concrete & Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 2302239
    Abandoned
  6. Crowder Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great Midwest Mining Corp · MSHA ID 2301876
    Abandoned
  7. D R Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC Kansas Inc · MSHA ID 2301689
    Abandoned
  8. Hamilton Hauling Incorporated
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hamilton Hauling Inc · MSHA ID 2301727
    Abandoned
  9. K C METRO
    Surface metal/non-metal · Limpus Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2301277
    Abandoned
  10. Kansas City Salt Terminal
    Facility metal/non-metal · Cargill Inc · MSHA ID 2301543
    Abandoned
  11. Kentucky Road Quarry
    Underground metal/non-metal · Talon Concrete and Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 2302211
    Abandoned
  12. Kleemann-1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Custom Crushing, LLC · MSHA ID 2302421
    Abandoned
  13. Lee'S Summit Quarry
    Underground metal/non-metal · Union Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2300215
    Abandoned
  14. Lee'S Summit Surface Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Union Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2301735
    Abandoned
  15. LICAUSI SERVICE CO
    Underground metal/non-metal · Limpus Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2300007
    Abandoned
  16. LOBO SAND CO INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lobo Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 2301260
    Abandoned
  17. Lowe-North Construction Portable No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lowe-North Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2302379
    Abandoned
  18. Manchester Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great Midwest Mining Corp · MSHA ID 2301903
    Abandoned
  19. Missouri River Dredge No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hub Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2301254
    Abandoned
  20. Missouri River Dredge No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hub Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2300725
    Abandoned
  21. Missouri River Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hub Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2301255
    Abandoned
  22. Missouri Rock Inc Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Missouri Rock Inc · MSHA ID 2301333
    Abandoned
  23. Pink Hill Quarry
    Underground metal/non-metal · Pink Hill Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2300743
    Abandoned
  24. Pink Hill Quarry No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pink Hill Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2301809
    Abandoned
  25. Pixley Mine & Plant
    Underground metal/non-metal · Union Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2300201
    Abandoned
  26. Plant #20 - River Bend
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Sand Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 2302515
    Abandoned
  27. Plant #21-Independence
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Sand Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 2302378
    Abandoned
  28. Portable Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunt Midwest Mining Inc · MSHA ID 2301927
    Abandoned
  29. Quality Aggregates (Hillside Materials)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 2302318
    Abandoned
  30. River Bend
    Surface metal/non-metal · Missouri Sand Company, LLC · MSHA ID 2302405
    Abandoned
  31. Rock Acres Quarry Underground
    Underground metal/non-metal · Rock Acres Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2300182
    Abandoned
  32. SHAMROCK AGGREGATES INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ash Grove Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2301778
    Abandoned
  33. STAR Excavation, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · STAR Excavation, LLC · MSHA ID 2302468
    Abandoned
  34. SUGAR CREEK CEMENT PLANT
    Facility metal/non-metal · Central Plains Cement Co · MSHA ID 2300158
    Abandoned
  35. Sugar Creek Underground Garage & Storage
    Underground metal/non-metal · Missouri Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 2301089
    Abandoned
  36. Vance Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Union Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2301703
    Abandoned
  37. Wake Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zarah Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 2301335
    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
Quarry 33
Quarry 31
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 18
Disturbed Surface - Pit 17
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 16
Adit 14
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Open Pit Mine 2
Air Shaft 1
Sand Pit 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.