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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Hamilton County, Ohio

Hamilton County, Ohio has 111 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1996. MSHA's register carries 36 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Hamilton 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)
111
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
36
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1996 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
    18 16.2%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    93 83.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned36 on register
  1. BUNNELL GRAVEL PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Bunnell Inc · MSHA ID 3301414
    Abandoned
  2. CAMP DENNISON-455
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3301588
    Abandoned
  3. Campbell Road - #715
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3304097
    Abandoned
  4. Cargill Salt Terminal
    Facility metal/non-metal · Cargill Salt · MSHA ID 3303407
    Abandoned
  5. Cincinnati Salt Service Center
    Facility metal/non-metal · Diamond Crystal Salt Company · MSHA ID 3303409
    Abandoned
  6. Cincinnati Warehouse
    Facility metal/non-metal · Morton Salt Division · MSHA ID 3303408
    Abandoned
  7. Cleves
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301591
    Abandoned
  8. Dry Fork Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitewater Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3303841
    Abandoned
  9. Eaton Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eaton Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303158
    Abandoned
  10. HARRISON GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 3301395
    Abandoned
  11. Harrison Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303751
    Abandoned
  12. HARRISON SAND & GRAVEL OHIO PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harrison Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301505
    Abandoned
  13. Hooven Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · D J R Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3304295
    Abandoned
  14. Hornsby S & G Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hornsby Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303985
    Abandoned
  15. Hornsby Sand And Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hornsby Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303111
    Abandoned
  16. James Bunnell Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Bunnell Inc · MSHA ID 3303842
    Abandoned
  17. Karen Lynn Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Karen Lynn Materials · MSHA ID 3301558
    Abandoned
  18. Kilby Road Plant #713
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3303803
    Abandoned
  19. Lost Bridge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lost Bridge · MSHA ID 3304532
    Abandoned
  20. Metso
    Surface metal/non-metal · Welch Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3304659
    Abandoned
  21. Miamitown Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3301382
    Abandoned
  22. MIAMITOWN-193
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3304369
    Abandoned
  23. NELSON/STARK GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelson Stark Company · MSHA ID 3304136
    Abandoned
  24. Newtown Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3301592
    Abandoned
  25. Petersburg
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alvis Landscape & Golf Course Mtrls Inc · MSHA ID 3304280
    Abandoned
  26. Plant 92
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3301549
    Abandoned
  27. Plant No 10
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brewer Company · MSHA ID 3303741
    Abandoned
  28. Queen City Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Queen City Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3301845
    Abandoned
  29. RACK SAND, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rack Sand Inc · MSHA ID 3301486
    Abandoned
  30. RUMPKE MOUNTAIN MINING
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rumpke Consolidated Company · MSHA ID 3304351
    Abandoned
  31. SOUTH PORTABLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3304453
    Abandoned
  32. Southern Ohio Aggregates Plant 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Ohio Aggregates · MSHA ID 3304401
    Abandoned
  33. Three Rivers Sand & Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Three Rivers Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3301674
    Abandoned
  34. Watson Gravel Inc (Kilby Plant)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Watson Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303835
    Abandoned
  35. Whitewater Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Corp · MSHA ID 3303814
    Abandoned
  36. Whitewater Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitewater Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3303763
    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 54
Gravel Pit 24
Disturbed Surface 18
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 12
Sand Pit 2
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.