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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Montgomery County, Ohio

Montgomery County, Ohio has 102 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1996. MSHA's register carries 23 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Montgomery 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)
102
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1996 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
    14 13.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    88 86.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned23 on register
  1. Barrett Paving Mats Inc Olive Road S & G
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3304474
    Abandoned
  2. Broadway Sand & Gravel Company Inc Pit I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Broadway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303821
    Abandoned
  3. BROADWAY SAND & GRAVEL INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Broadway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301412
    Abandoned
  4. Carter And Webb Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carter & Webb Inc · MSHA ID 3303756
    Abandoned
  5. Cassel Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cassel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303742
    Abandoned
  6. Dayton Portable Rap Plant 802
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3304469
    Abandoned
  7. East River Road 412 Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3301390
    Abandoned
  8. Eldean Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ernst Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 3303943
    Abandoned
  9. Englewood Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Englewood Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303999
    Abandoned
  10. H & H Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Utilities Company · MSHA ID 3304171
    Abandoned
  11. Hubert Heights - #432
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3304099
    Abandoned
  12. Jackson Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Sand Company · MSHA ID 3301622
    Abandoned
  13. Moraine Materials Pit No 5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moraine Materials Company · MSHA ID 3300039
    Abandoned
  14. Northmont Sand & Gravel Company Incorpor
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northmont Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3302385
    Abandoned
  15. Portable Plant #1 - #420
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3300007
    Abandoned
  16. RIP RAP ROAD
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3303772
    Abandoned
  17. Southern Hills Supply Inc Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Hills Supply Inc · MSHA ID 3301846
    Abandoned
  18. TIPP STONE, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tipp Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 3303749
    Abandoned
  19. UNI-BILT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelson Stark Company · MSHA ID 3304465
    Abandoned
  20. Wayne Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwestern Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 3303585
    Abandoned
  21. Weidle Sand & Gravel Plant No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weidle Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303762
    Abandoned
  22. Wenger Road Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Broadway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301465
    Abandoned
  23. Wenger Road Sand & Gravel Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Broadway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303705
    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 35
Gravel Pit 28
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 11
Disturbed Surface 11
Quarry 7
Quarry 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
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.