Abandoned mines in Meigs County, Ohio

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   84 18.9%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   197 44.4%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   14 3.2%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   17 3.8%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   7 1.6%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   125 28.2%

…and 45 more problems not listed here.

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. Apple Grove

   Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 3301676
   Abandoned 2026-03-09
2. Buckeye Plant

   Facility coal · Yellow Bush Mining LLC · MSHA ID 3304612
   Abandoned and Sealed 2024-09-12
3. Cheshire Dock

   coal · West Virginia Resources, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304617
   Abandoned 2016-05-12
4. Coal Power Mine #1

   Underground coal · Coal Power Inc · MSHA ID 3303791
   Abandoned 1981-08-21
5. D V Weber Sand And Gravel Pit And M

   Surface metal/non-metal · D V Weber Construction · MSHA ID 3302380
   Abandoned 1987-10-02
6. Dark Diamond

   Surface coal · Markel Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303921
   Abandoned 1985-12-03
7. Dark Diamond #1

   Underground coal · Markel Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3304033
   Abandoned and Sealed 1986-09-26
8. Dark Diamond #2 Mine

   Underground coal · Markel Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3304032
   Abandoned and Sealed 1986-09-26
9. Forest Run Mine

   Underground coal · Coal Power Inc · MSHA ID 3303910
   Abandoned 1984-08-09
10. Grimm No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Grimm Mining Co Inc · MSHA ID 3303340
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
11. Jeffers No 12

    Underground coal · Jeffers Coal Company · MSHA ID 3300839
    Abandoned 1971-03-06
12. Letart Corporation #4

    Surface metal/non-metal · Letart Corp · MSHA ID 3304316
    Abandoned 1994-09-08
13. Meigs #2 Mine

    Facility coal · CONSOL Mining Company LLC · MSHA ID 3301173
    Abandoned 2018-01-29
14. Meigs County Sand & Gravel Co.

    Surface metal/non-metal · Meigs County Commissioners · MSHA ID 3304508
    Abandoned 2003-03-28
15. Mine No 1

    Underground coal · White Rock Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303686
    Abandoned and Sealed 1983-01-27
16. Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Boothe Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303892
    Abandoned 1983-04-21
17. Prep Plant & Overland Conveyor

    Facility coal · Southern Ohio Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302682
    Abandoned 1978-05-09
18. Raven Dock

    Facility coal · Raven Hocking Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3303966
    Abandoned 1993-10-27
19. Shelly Materials Inc Racine Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Shelly Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3301627
    Abandoned 2007-05-07
20. Webster Mine

    Underground coal · Markel Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303922
    Abandoned and Sealed 1986-10-16
21. Yellowbush Mine

    Underground coal · Yellow Bush Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 3304595
    Abandoned 2017-11-13

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
• Columbiana County 442
• Jefferson County 440
• Stark County 418
• Belmont County 406
• Jackson County 379
• Perry County 375
• Muskingum County 361
• Hocking County 336
• Gallia County 335
• Coshocton County 288
• Noble County 283

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.