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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Hall County, Nebraska

Hall County, Nebraska has 81 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1962–1993. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Hall 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)
81
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1962–1993 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
    19 23.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    62 76.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned26 on register
  1. Alda Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Deweese Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2500492
    Abandoned
  2. Amick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & M Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 2500241
    Abandoned
  3. Davis Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davis Brothers Construction Company · MSHA ID 2500570
    Abandoned
  4. GRAND ISLAND MILL
    Facility metal/non-metal · Luzenac America, Inc. · MSHA ID 2500076
    Abandoned
  5. Greystone Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-Nebraska Aggregate Inc. · MSHA ID 2501321
    Abandoned
  6. High Chapparal Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilbert Central Corp · MSHA ID 2501027
    Abandoned
  7. Mader Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & M Equipment Company · MSHA ID 2500750
    Abandoned
  8. Mayers Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luther-Maddox Inc · MSHA ID 2500687
    Abandoned
  9. Moderson Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hooker Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 2500744
    Abandoned
  10. Nitro Construction
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nitro Construction · MSHA ID 2501152
    Abandoned
  11. Pi-14 Pit & Plant Or Pi-14 S & G Pit & P
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2500207
    Abandoned
  12. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lilley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2500621
    Abandoned
  13. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lilley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2501119
    Abandoned
  14. PIT #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lilley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2500930
    Abandoned
  15. Pit #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lilley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2501128
    Abandoned
  16. Pit #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lilley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2501131
    Abandoned
  17. Pit #77 Grand Island
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Sand and Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2500686
    Abandoned
  18. Platte Valley Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Platte Valley Construction Company · MSHA ID 2500571
    Abandoned
  19. Ponderoza Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luther-Maddox Inc · MSHA ID 2500272
    Abandoned
  20. RENEGADE 98
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & F Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2501187
    Abandoned
  21. South Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luther-Maddox Inc · MSHA ID 2500685
    Abandoned
  22. Tri City Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri City Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2501156
    Abandoned
  23. West Third Development Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & M Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 2500095
    Abandoned
  24. Wild Rose Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & M Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 2501015
    Abandoned
  25. Wood River Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wood River Concrete Company · MSHA ID 2500702
    Abandoned
  26. Wood River Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitney Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2500960
    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 37
Disturbed Surface 19
Gravel Pit 9
Sand Pit 9
Sand Pit 4
Clay Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Other counties in NebraskaAll counties →
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.