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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Greene County, Ohio

Greene County, Ohio has 127 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1994. MSHA's register carries 19 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Greene 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)
127
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
19
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits8 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1994 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
    33 26.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    94 74.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned19 on register
  1. Barrett Paving Materials Inc - Medway
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3301512
    Abandoned
  2. Beavercreek Plant 426
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3304157
    Abandoned
  3. Cedarville Tunnels
    Underground metal/non-metal · Cowin & Co. Inc, Mining Engineers & Contractors · MSHA ID 3304574
    Abandoned
  4. Cedarville-341
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3300040
    Abandoned
  5. Coates Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M J Coates Construction Company · MSHA ID 3303863
    Abandoned
  6. HAINES ROAD - #419
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3303636
    Abandoned
  7. Hawker & Son Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · James M Hawker Dba-Hawker & Son Excavating · MSHA ID 3301687
    Abandoned
  8. Larry Prine Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Larry Prine Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3303367
    Abandoned
  9. Phillips Companies Fairborn
    Surface metal/non-metal · Phillips Companies · MSHA ID 3304437
    Abandoned
  10. Pyper Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pyper Construction Company · MSHA ID 3301613
    Abandoned
  11. Richards & Son Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richards & Son Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3303846
    Abandoned
  12. S & W Cement Contractors Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & W Cement Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3304372
    Abandoned
  13. S & W Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & W Cement Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3303856
    Abandoned
  14. SPRING VALLEY - 346
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3304078
    Abandoned
  15. SPRING VALLEY NORTH-593
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3304168
    Abandoned
  16. Spring Valley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Watson Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3302675
    Abandoned
  17. Xenia Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Xenia Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3301850
    Abandoned
  18. Yellow Springs Aggregates LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yellow Springs Aggregates LLC Fairborn Limestone · MSHA ID 3304589
    Abandoned
  19. Yellow Springs Aggregates LLC (Plant 1)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yellow Springs Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 3304549
    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 55
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 20
Gravel Pit 16
Disturbed Surface 10
Quarry 10
Quarry 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Quarry - Rock 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Sand and 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.