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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Monroe County, Mississippi

Monroe County, Mississippi has 191 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1960–1992. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Monroe 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)
191
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1960–1992 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
    22 11.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    169 88.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. Aberdeen Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Nanocor Inc · MSHA ID 2200133
    Abandoned
  2. Amory Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mississippi Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200102
    Abandoned
  3. Amory Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mississippi Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200149
    Abandoned
  4. Amory Pit No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mississippi Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200338
    Abandoned
  5. Baldwin Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baldwin Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200643
    Abandoned
  6. BURT'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bull Mountain Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200598
    Abandoned
  7. Cadden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Haulers & Distributors Inc · MSHA ID 2200374
    Abandoned
  8. Carroll'S Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carrolls Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200596
    Abandoned
  9. Carrolls' Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carrolls' Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200530
    Abandoned
  10. Cross Track
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cook Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200227
    Abandoned
  11. Fowlkes
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200013
    Abandoned
  12. Fowlkes Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Filtrol Corp · MSHA ID 2200456
    Abandoned
  13. Hanson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cook Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200148
    Abandoned
  14. Holloway Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eutaw Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200590
    Abandoned
  15. Jackson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Haulers & Distributors Inc · MSHA ID 2200377
    Abandoned
  16. Jackson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amory Concrete Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200421
    Abandoned
  17. Lost Corner Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amory Concrete Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200379
    Abandoned
  18. Meeks Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Mississippi Inc · MSHA ID 2200371
    Abandoned
  19. No 2 Amory Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · C & F Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200425
    Abandoned
  20. NO. 1 PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamilton Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2200422
    Abandoned
  21. North Mississippi Gravel Co., LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Mississippi Gravel Co., LLC · MSHA ID 2200114
    Abandoned
  22. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200375
    Abandoned
  23. Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2200376
    Abandoned
  24. Preston Dobbs Truck Service & Gravel Sal
    Surface metal/non-metal · Preston Dobbs Truck Service & Gravel Sales LLC · MSHA ID 2200718
    Abandoned
  25. SCRIBER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Phillips Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200713
    Abandoned
  26. Tenn Tom Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200800
    Abandoned
  27. Waterway
    Surface metal/non-metal · HPH Company LLC · MSHA ID 2200795
    Abandoned
  28. WEYERHAEUSER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bull Mountain Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2200634
    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 114
Gravel Pit 44
Disturbed Surface 14
Clay Pit 7
Disturbed Surface - Pit 4
Strip Mine 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Sand Pit 2
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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.