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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Harnett County, North Carolina

Harnett County, North Carolina has 76 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1997. MSHA's register carries 17 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Harnett 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)
76
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
17
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1997 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
    47 61.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    26 34.2%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    3 3.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned17 on register
  1. Becker Field Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Becker Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 3100712
    Abandoned
  2. CAPE FEAR
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates Carolina Inc · MSHA ID 3102057
    Abandoned
  3. Harnett County Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · N C Dept Of Transportation-Div Of Highways · MSHA ID 3100935
    Abandoned
  4. Harnett County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kelly Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 3100794
    Abandoned
  5. Harnett Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Cumberland Gravel & Sand Company · MSHA ID 3101967
    Abandoned
  6. Ideal Brick Co Inc Atkins Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cape Fear Pottery Corp · MSHA ID 3100614
    Abandoned
  7. Johnson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Brothers Utility & Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 3101660
    Abandoned
  8. Johnsonville-Cameron Clay
    Surface metal/non-metal · Borden Brick & Tile Company · MSHA ID 3100247
    Abandoned
  9. Kelly Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barnhill Contracting Co - Southeast Division · MSHA ID 3101743
    Abandoned
  10. KIPLING PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kipling Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3102095
    Abandoned
  11. LEE COUNTY PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lee Paving Company · MSHA ID 3100434
    Abandoned
  12. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · S. T. Wooten Corporation · MSHA ID 3102261
    Abandoned
  13. Riley-Hall
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riley Paving Inc · MSHA ID 3102081
    Abandoned
  14. Riverside Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-East Services Inc · MSHA ID 3102177
    Abandoned
  15. Senter Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Becker Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 3100406
    Abandoned
  16. Senter Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates, Southeast · MSHA ID 3102043
    Abandoned
  17. Thomas Farm Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sanford Grading Company · MSHA ID 3101715
    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 45
Gravel Pit 6
Clay Pit 6
Gravel Pit 5
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Sand Pit 3
Tailings - Pond 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Sand Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.