Abandoned mines in Noble County, Ohio

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   10 2.8%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   273 75.8%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   8 2.2%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   11 3.1%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   1 0.3%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   57 15.8%

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. Aquarius Auger

   Surface coal · Aquarius Mining Corp · MSHA ID 3302674
   Abandoned 1972-11-20
2. Ava Pit & Plant

   Surface metal/non-metal · Ava Inc · MSHA ID 3300471
   Abandoned 1978-07-13
3. Ava Strip

   Surface coal · J E Rossiter Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3303047
   Abandoned 1975-02-18
4. Bennoc Strip

   Surface coal · Bennoc Inc · MSHA ID 3303805
   Abandoned 1989-02-06
5. C A M Co Auger #4

   Surface coal · C A M Company · MSHA ID 3304185
   Abandoned 1999-09-22
6. Dexter City Strip

   Surface coal · B & N Coal Inc · MSHA ID 3302134
   Abandoned 1983-08-03
7. Dimmerling Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Orange Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301915
   Abandoned 1972-05-23
8. Gittins Strip

   Surface coal · Gittins Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303626
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
9. Groves Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Orange Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301914
   Abandoned 1972-05-23
10. Hanna Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Orange Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301893
    Abandoned 1972-05-17
11. Harold Rawson Mining

    Surface coal · Harold Rawson Mining · MSHA ID 3304308
    Abandoned 1995-03-28
12. Kendall Mining Inc

    Surface coal · Kendall Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3304184
    Abandoned 1991-02-25
13. Knowlton Strip

    Surface coal · Knowltons Industries · MSHA ID 3303535
    Abandoned 1984-07-30
14. Merril Brothers Limestone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Merril Brothers Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303810
    Abandoned 1984-06-06
15. Muskingum Strip

    Surface coal · Central Ohio Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302321
    Abandoned 1978-04-20
16. Nau Pit #1

    Surface coal · King Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 3304177
    Abandoned 1996-11-14
17. Noble County Auger #1

    Surface coal · Leishman Auger Mining · MSHA ID 3304149
    Abandoned 1994-07-21
18. Orange Auger Mine

    Surface coal · Orange Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3302262
    Abandoned 1972-03-23
19. Peaker Run Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Peaker Run Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301912
    Abandoned 1972-12-05
20. Quaker City Mine

    Surface coal · Oxford Mining · MSHA ID 3304533
    Abandoned 2006-11-21
21. Rice #2 (Strip)

    Surface coal · Oxford Mining Co LLC · MSHA ID 3303770
    Abandoned 2017-06-07
22. RUBEL QUARRY

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rubel Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 3304263
    Abandoned 1997-06-12
23. Sharon Strip Mine

    Surface coal · J E Rossiter Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3303351
    Abandoned 1975-12-23
24. Shuman/Danford Pit

    Surface coal · Anco Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3304397
    Abandoned 2007-02-01
25. Sidwell Muskingum

    Surface coal · Sidwell Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3301892
    Abandoned 1995-09-06
26. SIDWELL QUARRY #2

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sidwell Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3302993
    Abandoned 1997-07-02
27. Strip #2

    Surface coal · Valley Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303769
    Abandoned 1999-09-22
28. Strip Mine No 80

    Surface coal · Ohio Coal & Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3303311
    Abandoned 1979-10-01

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
• 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.