Abandoned mines in Hocking County, Ohio

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   73 15.1%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   307 63.7%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   4 0.8%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   18 3.7%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   10 2.1%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   70 14.5%

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.

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. Allied Strip

   Surface coal · Allied Coal Sales & Leasing Company · MSHA ID 3303630
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
2. Anthony Pit Strip

   Surface coal · Lyle Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3303633
   Abandoned 1978-01-05
3. Arabia Strip

   Surface coal · Goeglein Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302916
   Abandoned 1975-07-14
4. Azbell Stone Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · Hocking County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3303765
   Abandoned 1982-08-20
5. Beckco No 5 Strip

   Surface coal · Becko Construction Co · MSHA ID 3303375
   Abandoned 1976-10-04
6. Blaine Pit

   Surface coal · Lyle Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3303748
   Abandoned 1980-11-17
7. Boyle Strip

   Surface coal · Boyle Coal Company · MSHA ID 3300760
   Abandoned 1985-06-01
8. Burnwell Strip

   Surface coal · Utility Mining Company · MSHA ID 3300764
   Abandoned 1974-12-26
9. C A B Strip

   Surface coal · C A B Coal Co · MSHA ID 3303256
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
10. Carter Strip

    Surface coal · A J Baltes Inc · MSHA ID 3303273
    Abandoned 1984-01-26
11. Coonville - Strip

    Surface coal · Darmac Combustion Inc · MSHA ID 3302532
    Abandoned 1992-11-16
12. Diamond Div No 2 Plant

    Facility metal/non-metal · General Clay Products Corp · MSHA ID 3301950
    Abandoned 1980-03-24
13. DIAMOND MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · General Clay Products Corp · MSHA ID 3304391
    Abandoned 2001-11-21
14. Econocoal No 2 -Strip

    Surface coal · Benedict Inc · MSHA ID 3303578
    Abandoned 1981-08-25
15. Empire Strip

    Surface coal · Empire Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 3303429
    Abandoned 1980-02-29
16. Harble Ridge Strip

    Surface coal · Harble Ridge Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303486
    Abandoned 1978-05-04
17. Hocking Plant

    Facility metal/non-metal · Logan Clay Products Company · MSHA ID 3300556
    Abandoned 1982-05-21
18. Hocking Valley

    Underground coal · Hocking Valley Resources Company · MSHA ID 3304224
    Abandoned 2002-01-29
19. Hocking Valley Mining Inc

    Surface coal · Hocking Valley Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3304071
    Abandoned 1995-07-19
20. Hoerger Strip

    Surface coal · Wilmot Mining Company · MSHA ID 3301360
    Abandoned 1973-05-01
21. Hol-Acc 1

    Surface coal · Hol-Acc Corp · MSHA ID 3304009
    Abandoned 1985-11-01
22. Jenny Lynn Strip

    Surface coal · Jenny Lynn Mining Company · MSHA ID 3303719
    Abandoned 1981-05-01
23. Johnston Mine

    Surface coal · Red Oak Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303909
    Abandoned 1983-04-21
24. Joy Mine

    Underground coal · Joy Coal Company · MSHA ID 3301075
    Abandoned 1980-09-26
25. Key Coal Strip

    Surface coal · Key Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301364
    Abandoned 1972-11-06
26. Key Coal Strip No 2

    Surface coal · Key Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301932
    Abandoned 1972-05-17
27. Koehler Strip

    Surface coal · Amesville Coal Augering Co · MSHA ID 3300759
    Abandoned 1974-01-14
28. Lawson & Lawson

    Surface coal · Lawson & Lawson Inc · MSHA ID 3304016
    Abandoned 1986-11-05
29. LOGAN MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · General Clay Products Corp · MSHA ID 3300476
    Abandoned 1997-03-13
30. Lominco Pit #005

    Surface coal · Eagle Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3303878
    Abandoned 1983-05-23
31. Mason Coal Prep Plant

    Facility coal · Mason Coal & Gravel · MSHA ID 3303601
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
32. Mt Pleasant Strip

    Surface coal · Rayle Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303796
    Abandoned 1980-09-05
33. Murray City Job

    Surface coal · Addington Inc · MSHA ID 3303537
    Abandoned 1995-10-27
34. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · David Boyle Inc · MSHA ID 3304037
    Abandoned 1990-12-06
35. Nutter No 2

    Surface coal · Nutter Brothers Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303258
    Abandoned 1985-02-12
36. Plant #17 Crusher

    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Aggregate · MSHA ID 3304601
    Abandoned 2008-04-14
37. Starr

    Surface coal · Key Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3302694
    Abandoned 1982-08-09
38. Strip No 1

    Surface coal · Jennette Drilling Company · MSHA ID 3303260
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
39. Tick Ridge Andrick Pit

    Surface coal · J T Corp · MSHA ID 3303469
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
40. Tiffany Strip

    Surface coal · Tiffany Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303611
    Abandoned 1979-10-03
41. Tri State No 2

    Surface coal · Tri State Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 3304069
    Abandoned 1992-10-16
42. Wharton Strip

    Surface coal · Wharton Supply Company · MSHA ID 3303687
    Abandoned 1986-07-22
43. Whitmore Strip

    Surface coal · Whitmore Mining Company · MSHA ID 3301365
    Abandoned 1973-02-09

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
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• 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.