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Abandoned mines in Guernsey County, Ohio

Guernsey County, Ohio has 210 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1909–1994, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 1 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 128 problems in the county, 42 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 49 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Guernsey 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)
210
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
42
MSHA mines marked abandoned
49
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits22 quadrangle maps, published 1909–1994 128 OSMRE problems, 86 reclaimed 1 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    38 11.2%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    203 60.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    4 1.2%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    8 2.4%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    11 3.3%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    74 21.9%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
King's Mine Mine

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems128 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Bluebell North P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Bluebell North P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buckeyeville P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Buckeyeville P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Buckeyeville P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Buckeyeville P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Buckeyeville P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buckeyeville East P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Buckeyeville East P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Buckeyeville East P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Buckeyeville East P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Buckeyeville East P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buffalo P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buffalo P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buffalo North P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Buffalo North P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Buffalo North P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Buffalo North P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Byesville Country Club P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Byesville Country Club P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Byesville Country Club P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Byesville East P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Byesville East P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Byesville Park Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Byesville West P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Byesville West P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Byesville West P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Byesville West P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Callihan Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cambridge Reservoir P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cambridge Reservoir P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cambridge Reservoir P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Cambridge Reservoir P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Cambridge Reservoir P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Cambridge Reservoir P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Cambridge Reservoir P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cambridge Reservoir P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Carter Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cherry Hill Coal Refuse Fire P1 Underground Mine Fires Reclamation Completed
Cia Industrial Park P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Craig P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Craig P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Cumberland P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Cumberland P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Daugherty Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Detroit Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Dionnes Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Dodd Lane Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Egnot Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Frost P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Frost Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Garan Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Georgetown P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Greenwood East P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Greenwood East P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Guernsey County Road 43 Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
H. Green P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hendrickson Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Hlad Pond Breach P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Ideal Mine Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Ideal Road Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Jackson Special P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Jackson Special P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Jackson Special P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Jackson Special P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Jackson Special P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Jackson Special P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Jackson Special P3 Other Reclamation Pending
Kipling P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kipling P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kipling P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Klondike Mine Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kovalchik Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Liberty School P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Lore City P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Lore City P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Lore City P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Mc Glaughlin P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Mcfarlin No 3 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Merdi Davis Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Miller Shafts P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Miller Shafts P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Morton P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Murray Hill P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
New Concord P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
New Concord P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
New Concord P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
New Concord P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
New Concord P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
New Concord Northeast P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Nicholson Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Nicola Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Nicola Subsidence 2 P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Oldham P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Opperman Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Orchard Mine Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Palmer Street Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Putney Ridge P1 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Putney Ridge P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Putney Ridge P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Putney Ridge P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Putney Ridge P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Putney Ridge Road Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Quaker City Pws P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Rigby Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Rigby Mine P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Roberston Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Rome Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Rossiter Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Rush Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Schlosser Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Senecaville P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Senecaville P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Senecaville West P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Simmons Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Spencer Station P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Spencer Station P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Stack Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Vaughn Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Walhonding P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Pending
Walhonding P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Walhonding P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Walhonding P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Walhonding P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Walhonding Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Waller Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Weekly Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Yakubik Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned49 on register
  1. Allied Tipple
    Facility coal · Allied Coal Producers Inc · MSHA ID 3303773
    Abandoned
  2. Anco Strip/Peoli South
    Surface coal · Anco Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3304174
    Abandoned
  3. B And M #1 Strip
    Surface coal · Messerschmidt Construction Company · MSHA ID 3303586
    Abandoned
  4. Bennoc Strip
    Surface coal · Bennoc Inc · MSHA ID 3302684
    Abandoned
  5. Berresford Strip
    Surface coal · Berresford Coal Company · MSHA ID 3304221
    Abandoned
  6. Branch No 2 Strip
    Surface coal · Upland Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303488
    Abandoned
  7. Brown Auger Mine
    Surface coal · Brown Auger Mining Company · MSHA ID 3303037
    Abandoned
  8. Buckeyeville
    Surface coal · E. K. Development Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3304238
    Abandoned
  9. C A M Co #5
    Surface coal · C A M Company · MSHA ID 3304237
    Abandoned and Sealed
  10. Cambridge Strip
    Surface coal · Eastern Ohio Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 3303700
    Abandoned
  11. Cambridge Strip
    Surface coal · Allied Coal Producers Inc · MSHA ID 3303795
    Abandoned
  12. Carol No 3 Strip
    Surface coal · Baker & Baker Coal Company · MSHA ID 3300955
    Abandoned
  13. Center No 1 (Strip)
    Surface coal · Tri-Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303617
    Abandoned
  14. Cook Strip
    Surface coal · Cook Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303668
    Abandoned
  15. Elder Strip
    Surface coal · Son Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3303646
    Abandoned
  16. Elder Surface
    Surface coal · Son Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3303652
    Abandoned
  17. Fairview Strip
    Surface coal · Ohio River Collieries · MSHA ID 3302426
    Abandoned
  18. Ginger Bend
    Underground coal · Rosebud Mining Company · MSHA ID 3304705
    Abandoned
  19. Greegor Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Greegor & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3302310
    Abandoned
  20. Guernsey Auger
    Surface coal · Sun Coal Augering Inc · MSHA ID 3304373
    Abandoned
  21. Guernsey Pit
    Surface coal · Sugarcreek Clay & Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 3304319
    Abandoned
  22. Guernsey Strip
    Surface coal · Oxford Mining · MSHA ID 3304338
    Abandoned
  23. Hall Strip
    Surface coal · Schlabach Coal Co · MSHA ID 3303361
    Abandoned
  24. L & M Mine
    Surface coal · L & M Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303975
    Abandoned
  25. Leishman Auger #1
    Surface coal · Leishman Auger Mining · MSHA ID 3304176
    Abandoned
  26. Mccoy
    Surface coal · Blum Coal Company · MSHA ID 3304138
    Abandoned
  27. Muskingum
    Facility coal · Central Ohio Coal · MSHA ID 3304638
    Abandoned
  28. Muskingum Mine
    Surface coal · Central Ohio Coal Company · MSHA ID 3300989
    Abandoned
  29. Muskingum Strip
    Surface coal · Central Ohio Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302320
    Abandoned
  30. Nicholson (Strip)
    Surface coal · J & W Mining · MSHA ID 3303899
    Abandoned
  31. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Valley Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303040
    Abandoned
  32. Oxford Guernsey Mine
    Surface coal · Oxford Mining Co. LLC. · MSHA ID 3304624
    Abandoned
  33. Oxford Mining #4
    Surface coal · Oxford Mining · MSHA ID 3304385
    Abandoned
  34. Peoli Strip
    Surface coal · Costain Coal Inc · MSHA ID 3304342
    Abandoned
  35. Phillip L Skinner No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Philip L Skinner Inc · MSHA ID 3303334
    Abandoned
  36. Phyllis Strip
    Surface coal · J E Rossiter Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3303263
    Abandoned
  37. Pidgeon Gap Mine
    Surface coal · Mining Reclamation Company · MSHA ID 3303755
    Abandoned
  38. R T G #5
    Surface coal · R T G Inc · MSHA ID 3303599
    Abandoned
  39. Rice #5 (Strip)
    Surface coal · R & F Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302688
    Abandoned
  40. Rice No 7 Strip
    Surface coal · R & F Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303039
    Abandoned
  41. Russell Mine
    Surface coal · Russell Coal Company · MSHA ID 3304346
    Abandoned
  42. Strip #2
    Surface coal · Valley Mining, Inc. · MSHA ID 3303708
    Abandoned
  43. Thompson (Strip)
    Surface coal · Klass Inc · MSHA ID 3303824
    Abandoned
  44. Thompson Mine
    Facility coal · Thompson Mining Company · MSHA ID 3304036
    Abandoned
  45. Thompson Strip
    Surface coal · Thompson Mining Company · MSHA ID 3303324
    Abandoned
  46. Warne (Strip)
    Surface coal · Krulock Inc · MSHA ID 3303675
    Abandoned
  47. Weslo-Rtg Mine
    Surface coal · Weslo Inc · MSHA ID 3304330
    Abandoned
  48. Westland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westland Stone Company · MSHA ID 3303298
    Abandoned
  49. Wolfe Surface
    Surface coal · Don Fee & Sons Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303650
    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
Strip Mine 164
P1 Subsidence 39
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 20
P2 Vertical Openings 16
Disturbed Surface 13
P1 Vertical Openings 13
P2 Subsidence 9
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 7
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 6
P2 Portals 5
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 5
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 4
P1 Portals 3
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 3
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
P3 Gobs 3
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 2
Tipple 2
P2 Dangerous Slides 2
Quarry 2
Strip Mine 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 2
P1 Dangerous Slides 2
Mine 1
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 1
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 1
P1 Underground Mine Fires 1
P3 High Wall 1
P2 Surface Burning 1
P3 Spoil Area 1
Adit 1
P3 Other 1
Other counties in OhioAll 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.