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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Holmes County, Ohio

Holmes County, Ohio has 89 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1912–1993. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 18 problems in the county, 12 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 22 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Holmes 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)
89
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
12
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1912–1993 18 OSMRE problems, 6 reclaimed 0 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
    6 5.6%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    60 56.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    29 27.1%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 1.9%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    1 0.9%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    9 8.4%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems18 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Beach City P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Beach City P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Beach City P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Bell-snyder P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Berlin P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Berlin P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Erwin Miller Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Hardy Run P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Hardy Run P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Holmes Cr 59 Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Indian Trail P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Millersburg-Hardy P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Millersburg-Hardy P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Troyer Valley North P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Troyer Valley North P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Troyer Valley North P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Walnut Creek P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Walnut Creek P1 Dangerous Slides 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 Abandoned22 on register
  1. Bartley & Bolin Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bartley & Bolin Inc · MSHA ID 3304430
    Abandoned
  2. Briar Hill Plant #41
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304684
    Abandoned
  3. Broken Arrow (2) (Strip)
    Surface coal · Goeglein Coal Company · MSHA ID 3301834
    Abandoned
  4. Bros Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Benton Bridge Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303847
    Abandoned
  5. Charm Strip
    Surface coal · Holmes Limestone Co. · MSHA ID 3301362
    Abandoned
  6. Clark Clay Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark Clay Company · MSHA ID 3300456
    Abandoned
  7. Copperhead Strip
    Surface coal · Gex Hardy Inc · MSHA ID 3302432
    Abandoned
  8. E. Miller Mining
    Surface metal/non-metal · E. Miller Mining · MSHA ID 3304661
    Abandoned
  9. Eagle One
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark Clay Co. · MSHA ID 3304648
    Abandoned
  10. Hershberger Strip
    Surface coal · Sugarcreek Clay & Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 3304088
    Abandoned
  11. Holmes 241 Clay Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holmes Limestone Company · MSHA ID 3302437
    Abandoned
  12. Holmes Clay Division
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & M Mineral Company · MSHA ID 3301195
    Abandoned
  13. Holmes Redimix, Inc
    Facility metal/non-metal · Holmes Redimix, Inc. · MSHA ID 3303829
    Abandoned
  14. Holmes Strip
    coal · Holmes Limestone Company · MSHA ID 3300769
    Abandoned
  15. Holmes Supply Millersburg Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holmes Supply Millersburg Site · MSHA ID 3304681
    Abandoned
  16. Jones Limestone Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Walter Jones Construction Company · MSHA ID 3303677
    Abandoned
  17. L & M Auger No 2
    Surface coal · L & M Mineral Company · MSHA ID 3304258
    Abandoned
  18. Miller Mine
    Surface coal · Miller Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303908
    Abandoned
  19. Rmi-Holmes
    Surface coal · Red Malcuit Inc · MSHA ID 3304419
    Abandoned
  20. Schlabach Strip-Holmes
    Surface coal · Schlabach Coal Co · MSHA ID 3302498
    Abandoned
  21. THE BRIAR HILL STONE CO.
    Facility metal/non-metal · Briar Hill Stone Company · MSHA ID 3303259
    Abandoned
  22. Troyer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Clay Products Corp · MSHA ID 3300474
    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 51
Gravel Pit 12
Quarry 10
P1 Vertical Openings 5
Disturbed Surface - Pit 5
Clay Pit 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
P1 Subsidence 3
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 2
P2 Vertical Openings 1
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 1
P1 Dangerous Slides 1
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
Quarry 1
P3 Spoil Area 1
Shale Pit 1
Clay Pit 1
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 1
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 1
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 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.