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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Cumberland County, North Carolina

Cumberland County, North Carolina has 100 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1948–1997. MSHA's register carries 30 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Cumberland 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)
100
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
30
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1948–1997 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
    52 52.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    48 48.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned30 on register
  1. Barnes Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C J Pegram & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3101684
    Abandoned
  2. Calabash Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cumberland Paving Company · MSHA ID 3101624
    Abandoned
  3. Carolina Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carolina Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3102025
    Abandoned
  4. Clark
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Materials Company LLC · MSHA ID 3102166
    Abandoned
  5. Crowell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crowell Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 3101397
    Abandoned
  6. Cumberland County Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · N C Dept Of Transportation-Div Of Highways · MSHA ID 3100852
    Abandoned
  7. Cumberland County Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dickerson Inc · MSHA ID 3101855
    Abandoned
  8. Cumberland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials · MSHA ID 3102237
    Abandoned
  9. Evans Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C J Pegram & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3101685
    Abandoned
  10. Evans Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C J Pegram & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3101800
    Abandoned
  11. Fowler Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baker Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3101588
    Abandoned
  12. Fowler Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reaves Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3101700
    Abandoned
  13. Fowler Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W H I Construction Company · MSHA ID 3102023
    Abandoned
  14. Highsmith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arno Sand Company · MSHA ID 3101585
    Abandoned
  15. HIGHSMITH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barnhill Contracting Co., SouthEast Division · MSHA ID 3100475
    Abandoned
  16. HOLMES PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Diarmid Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 3102106
    Abandoned
  17. Livingston Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crowell Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 3101866
    Abandoned
  18. NORTHSIDE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Taylor'S Of Fayetteville Inc · MSHA ID 3102111
    Abandoned
  19. Portable SC-3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barnhill Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3102206
    Abandoned
  20. Portable SC-7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barnhill Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3102233
    Abandoned
  21. Repair Shop
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crowell Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 3101621
    Abandoned
  22. Repair Shop
    Surface metal/non-metal · C J Pegram & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3101686
    Abandoned
  23. RIVER ROAD
    Surface metal/non-metal · G S Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3102148
    Abandoned
  24. Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Products Inc · MSHA ID 3101960
    Abandoned
  25. SHAW PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crowell Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 3101482
    Abandoned
  26. Triple A Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triple A Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 3101805
    Abandoned
  27. University Estates Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawson Construction Co Of Fayetteville Inc · MSHA ID 3101484
    Abandoned
  28. Vander Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blythe Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3100405
    Abandoned
  29. Vanzant Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Best Redi-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 3101638
    Abandoned
  30. Wade Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Materials Company, LLC · MSHA ID 3102089
    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
Disturbed Surface 47
Sand Pit 23
Sand Pit 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 5
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Clay Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Gravel Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Gravel 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.