Abandoned mines in Vinton County, Ohio

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   43 12.7%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   231 68.3%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   8 2.4%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   12 3.6%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   6 1.8%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   38 11.2%

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. B & D Coal #1

   Facility coal · B & D Coal Inc · MSHA ID 3301308
   Abandoned 1999-10-13
2. B&D Pit

   Surface coal · R A Eberts Company Inc · MSHA ID 3304249
   Abandoned 1992-03-27
3. Benedict Inc

   Surface coal · Benedict Inc · MSHA ID 3300922
   Abandoned 1996-11-15
4. Beyer Strip

   Surface coal · Key Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303272
   Abandoned 1975-09-22
5. Big W No 2

   Surface coal · Curtis Jenkins Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303726
   Abandoned 1980-08-28
6. Bush-Fields

   Surface coal · Stewart Construction Company · MSHA ID 3303359
   Abandoned 1989-01-03
7. Cherry Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Mack Energy Company · MSHA ID 3303255
   Abandoned 1977-01-24
8. Crow Strip

   Surface coal · J A Crow Coal Company · MSHA ID 3300924
   Abandoned 1972-07-20
9. Daft Strip

   Surface coal · Daft Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303647
   Abandoned 1990-09-12
10. Dundas Job

    Surface coal · Carbon River Coal Corporation · MSHA ID 3302565
    Abandoned 2025-04-01
11. Elk (Strip)

    Surface coal · Elk Coal Inc · MSHA ID 3303662
    Abandoned 1995-01-27
12. Empire Strip

    Surface coal · Empire Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 3303612
    Abandoned 1980-01-04
13. Esther Rae #1

    Underground coal · J B J Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303798
    Abandoned 1981-08-21
14. Francis Strip

    Surface coal · Lydia Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303679
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
15. Global #1

    Surface coal · Global Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3303485
    Abandoned 1981-11-05
16. Gofer #1

    Underground coal · Gofer Mining Company · MSHA ID 3303911
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-08-09
17. Green Strip

    Surface coal · Green & Burritt Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303873
    Abandoned 1982-06-23
18. Green Strip #2

    Surface coal · Green & Son Coal Company · MSHA ID 3304038
    Abandoned 1988-11-01
19. Hall

    Surface coal · Hall Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303799
    Abandoned 1982-04-20
20. Hawks Mine

    Underground coal · Waterloo Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302995
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
21. Hawks Mine #2

    Underground coal · Waterloo Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303657
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-08-21
22. James R Eberts Coal

    Surface coal · Eberts Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3300923
    Abandoned 1980-12-01
23. Jolly Strip Mine

    Surface coal · J T Corp · MSHA ID 3303275
    Abandoned 1983-03-28
24. Juniper No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Juniper Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303499
    Abandoned 1978-06-05
25. Mcarthur

    Surface coal · Rayle Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303613
    Abandoned 1983-02-17
26. Mcarthur Lumber & Post Co Inc

    Surface coal · Mc Arthur Lumber & Post Company Inc · MSHA ID 3304203
    Abandoned 1991-10-10
27. Mcarthur Pit

    Surface coal · R A Eberts Company Inc · MSHA ID 3304058
    Abandoned 1997-01-01
28. Melvin Stone Hamden Plant

    Facility metal/non-metal · Melvin Stone Company LLC · MSHA ID 3304282
    Abandoned 2015-09-22
29. Oak Grove

    Surface coal · Oak Grove Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303959
    Abandoned 1985-12-16
30. Prater-Murdock Strip

    Surface coal · Quality Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303459
    Abandoned 1977-07-07
31. Prep Plant

    Facility coal · West Virginia Resources, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304614
    Abandoned 2016-05-11
32. Quakertown Strip

    Surface coal · Stewart Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303669
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
33. Quality Stone Company

    Facility metal/non-metal · Quality Stone Company · MSHA ID 3304161
    Abandoned 1992-11-23
34. R & S Strip

    Surface coal · R & S Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303953
    Abandoned 1990-12-31
35. Raccoon #3

    Underground coal · Southern Ohio Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302308
    Abandoned and Sealed 1989-09-25
36. Raccoon No 3 Prep Plant

    Facility coal · Southern Ohio Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303460
    Abandoned 1978-03-28
37. Raccoon No 4 Mine

    Underground coal · Southern Ohio Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302307
    Abandoned 1980-09-26
38. Rogers #2

    Surface coal · Rogers Coal · MSHA ID 3303774
    Abandoned 1980-12-01
39. Rooster Run Mine

    Surface coal · Puckett Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303923
    Abandoned 1984-08-09
40. S & S Auger Mining #2

    Surface coal · S & S Auger Mining · MSHA ID 3304290
    Abandoned 1996-10-30
41. S-K Strip

    Surface coal · S-K Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303978
    Abandoned 1986-01-28
42. Swan No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Swan Coal Company · MSHA ID 3303307
    Abandoned 1984-11-15
43. Vinton Strip

    Surface coal · E & Z Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301890
    Abandoned 1980-09-26
44. Vinton Strip

    Surface coal · Lyle Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3303656
    Abandoned 1981-10-01
45. Vinton Strip

    Surface coal · Mack Energy Company · MSHA ID 3303804
    Abandoned 1984-12-03
46. Walton Strip

    Surface coal · Walton Coal Company · MSHA ID 3302934
    Abandoned 1980-12-01

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

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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.