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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Scioto County, Ohio

Scioto County, Ohio has 72 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1912–2002, including 2 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 4 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 18 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Scioto 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)
72
Mine openings
2
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1912–2002 4 OSMRE problems, 4 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
    4 5.3%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    20 26.3%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    50 65.8%
  4. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    1 1.3%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1 1.3%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems4 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Rock Hollow P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
White Gravel Road P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
White Gravel Road P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
White Gravel Road P1 Vertical Openings 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 Abandoned18 on register
  1. Bondclay Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Union Mining Company Of Allegheny County Inc · MSHA ID 3300491
    Abandoned
  2. Chaffins Mine
    Surface coal · Chaffins Mining · MSHA ID 3304288
    Abandoned
  3. Coleman Preparation Plant
    Facility coal · Coleman Coal Sales · MSHA ID 3303358
    Abandoned
  4. H And H Strip
    Surface coal · H & H Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303525
    Abandoned
  5. Haver Hill Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shelly Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 3301662
    Abandoned
  6. LUCASVILLE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lucasville Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3304134
    Abandoned
  7. Mc Govney Dock
    Facility coal · Mc Govney Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 3303591
    Abandoned
  8. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Susquehanna Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303538
    Abandoned
  9. PCWV #2
    Facility coal · PC West Virginia Synthetic Fuel #2 LLC · MSHA ID 3304513
    Abandoned
  10. Portsmouth Works
    Facility metal/non-metal · Harbison-Walker Refractories U S · MSHA ID 3303711
    Abandoned
  11. Scioto Sand & Stone, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scioto Sand & Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304488
    Abandoned
  12. SCIOTO VALLEY RESOURCES
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates Davon, LLC · MSHA ID 3304125
    Abandoned
  13. South Webster Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Gunning Refractories Inc · MSHA ID 3301217
    Abandoned
  14. Stockdale Area Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Coy Clay Company · MSHA ID 3303752
    Abandoned
  15. Taylor Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Taylor Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3300163
    Abandoned
  16. Wheelersburg Dock
    Facility coal · Standard Lafarge · MSHA ID 3303257
    Abandoned
  17. Wheelersburg Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cunningham Asphalt Paving Inc · MSHA ID 3302389
    Abandoned
  18. Wheelersburg Terminal
    Facility coal · Kentucky-Ohio Transportation Company · MSHA ID 3303843
    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
Clay Pit 19
Clay Pit 10
Disturbed Surface 9
Quarry 9
Strip Mine 8
Quarry 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Gravel Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Adit 2
P1 Vertical Openings 1
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
P2 Dangerous Slides 1
Gravel Pit 1
P1 Portals 1
Other counties in OhioAll counties →
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.