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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Johnston County, North Carolina

Johnston County, North Carolina has 64 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1964–1998. MSHA's register carries 18 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Johnston 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)
64
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1964–1998 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
    8 12.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    56 87.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned18 on register
  1. Allen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Atlantic Inc Coastal Carolina Division · MSHA ID 3101849
    Abandoned
  2. Allen Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · S T Wooten Corp · MSHA ID 3101862
    Abandoned
  3. Allen Sand Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrus Construction Company · MSHA ID 3101831
    Abandoned
  4. DENNING PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williams Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3102029
    Abandoned
  5. Everette Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barnhill Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3102060
    Abandoned
  6. Hills Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ready Mixed Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3102056
    Abandoned
  7. Howell Woods Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid--East Services Inc. · MSHA ID 3102198
    Abandoned
  8. Johnston County Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · N C Dept Of Transportation-Div Of Highways · MSHA ID 3100948
    Abandoned
  9. Johnston County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · S T Wooten Corp · MSHA ID 3101731
    Abandoned
  10. Johnston County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · S T Wooten Corporation · MSHA ID 3102201
    Abandoned
  11. Johnston Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Florida Rock Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3101942
    Abandoned
  12. Mary Taylor Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rea Construction Company · MSHA ID 3101695
    Abandoned
  13. Massengill Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-East Services, Inc. · MSHA ID 3102319
    Abandoned
  14. Matthew Sand & Gravel, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Matthew Sand & Gravel, Inc · MSHA ID 3102197
    Abandoned
  15. Perry Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · W J M Perry Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3102059
    Abandoned
  16. Pit #113 (Bobbit Pit)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rea Construction Company · MSHA ID 3101917
    Abandoned
  17. Stone Creek Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.M Hayes Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 3102348
    Abandoned
  18. Young-Mangum Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blaylock Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3100706
    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
Sand Pit 19
Gravel Pit 18
Disturbed Surface 8
Sand and Gravel Pit 6
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 5
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Quarry 2
Gravel Pit 1
Quarry 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.