Abandoned mines in Gallia County, Ohio

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   71 17.0%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   243 58.3%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   27 6.5%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   12 2.9%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   4 1.0%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   60 14.4%

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. B B & M Surface

   Surface coal · B B & M Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303653
   Abandoned 1980-02-29
2. Belville Strip

   Surface coal · Bellville Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303615
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
3. Bladen Mine

   Underground coal · M & J Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303851
   Abandoned 1981-05-22
4. C A B Strip

   Surface coal · C A B Coal Co · MSHA ID 3303054
   Abandoned 1978-05-23
5. Cheshire Dock

   Facility coal · West Virginia Resources Inc · MSHA ID 3302125
   Abandoned 2018-08-31
6. Clipper Mills Dock

   Facility coal · Clipper Mills Dock Company · MSHA ID 3302124
   Abandoned 1982-08-11
7. Coal Valley

   Surface coal · Sands Hill Coal Company Inc. · MSHA ID 3304344
   Abandoned 2005-01-06
8. Coal Valley Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Cavalier Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3303352
   Abandoned 1977-01-10
9. Collier/Symmes

   Facility coal · Leroy Collier · MSHA ID 3304679
   Abandoned 2024-03-12
10. Collier/Symmes

    Facility coal · Collier Ports, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304690
    Abandoned 2024-03-12
11. Conkle Ug

    Underground coal · Conkle Coal Company · MSHA ID 3300732
    Abandoned 1971-06-04
12. Crown City Mine

    Surface coal · Muskingum Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303329
    Abandoned 1988-10-03
13. Fairway Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Fairway Equipment Company · MSHA ID 3303316
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
14. Gallia

    Surface coal · C K L Inc · MSHA ID 3303639
    Abandoned 1982-06-23
15. Gallia County Strips

    Surface coal · West Virginia Resources, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304615
    Abandoned 2012-10-23
16. Gallia Strip

    Surface coal · E & Z Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303642
    Abandoned 1980-02-29
17. Gallia Strip

    Surface coal · J R Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303659
    Abandoned 1980-04-16
18. Ghm #4 Auger

    Surface coal · Green Hill Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3304410
    Abandoned 1998-06-22
19. Green Strip

    Surface coal · Green & Burritt Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303905
    Abandoned 1988-03-01
20. Hamilton Pit

    Surface coal · Southeastern Fuel Inc · MSHA ID 3303723
    Abandoned 1981-05-04
21. Judy Mine

    Surface coal · D & J Energy Inc · MSHA ID 3303811
    Abandoned 1983-06-17
22. Juniper Gallia No 1

    Surface coal · Progressive Energy Inc · MSHA ID 3303588
    Abandoned 1977-09-27
23. Kanauga Dock

    Facility coal · Hopedale Mining LLC · MSHA ID 3302044
    Abandoned 2018-08-31
24. Kymcoal #1 Mine

    Underground coal · Kymcoal Inc · MSHA ID 3303997
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-04-05
25. Kymcoal #2

    Underground coal · Kymcoal Inc · MSHA ID 3304027
    Abandoned and Sealed 1987-12-18
26. Lamay River Dock

    Facility coal · La May Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303729
    Abandoned 1986-05-14
27. Lamplite Mine

    Underground coal · Lamplite Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303325
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
28. Last Chance

    Underground coal · Milton Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3304142
    Abandoned and Sealed 1991-02-14
29. M T Epling Company

    Surface metal/non-metal · M T Epling Company · MSHA ID 3301547
    Abandoned 1986-04-07
30. Mack River Terminal

    Facility coal · Mack Energy Company · MSHA ID 3303731
    Abandoned 1984-08-20
31. Merco Strip #2

    Surface coal · Merco Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303581
    Abandoned 1988-11-28
32. Morgan No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Larado Mining Company · MSHA ID 3303638
    Abandoned 1978-05-30
33. No 5 Strip

    Surface coal · Goeglein Coal Company · MSHA ID 3300733
    Abandoned 1971-04-08
34. Oak Grove #1

    Surface coal · Oak Grove Energy & Reclamation Inc · MSHA ID 3304226
    Abandoned 1991-06-24
35. Queen Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Keener Sand & Clay Company · MSHA ID 3301534
    Abandoned 1979-03-19
36. Raven Auger

    Surface coal · Raven Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 3302037
    Abandoned 1974-05-20
37. Rodney Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Stewart Construction · MSHA ID 3304590
    Abandoned 2009-05-19
38. Universal Strip

    Surface coal · Universal Coal & Energy Division · MSHA ID 3303413
    Abandoned 1984-08-09
39. Wash Plant 1

    Facility coal · Gallia Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 3303801
    Abandoned 1982-07-08
40. Waterloo Dock #1

    Facility coal · Waterloo Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3304048
    Abandoned 2002-02-14
41. Waterloo Dock #2

    Facility coal · Mc Carty Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3303654
    Abandoned 2002-01-15

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Tuscarawas County 627
• Columbiana County 442
• Jefferson County 440
• Stark County 418
• Belmont County 406
• Jackson County 379
• Perry County 375
• Muskingum County 361
• Hocking County 336
• Coshocton County 288
• Noble County 283
• Vinton County 259

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.