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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Wayne County, Ohio

Wayne County, Ohio has 31 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1901–1978. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 38 problems in the county, 13 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 13 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Wayne 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)
31
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
13
MSHA mines marked abandoned
13
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1901–1978 38 OSMRE problems, 25 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
    15 21.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    12 17.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    17 24.6%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 2.9%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    23 33.3%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems38 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Allison Subsidence - Wayne P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Beachy Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bosley Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dalton P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Doylestown West P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Duncan Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Edwards Road P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Edwards Road P1 Subsidence In Reclamation
Edwards Road P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Edwards Road P1 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Edwards Road P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Edwards Road P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ferrebee Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Gleason Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hershberger Cem P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive Reclamation Completed
Hicks Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Hollow Hicks Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Jim Kelly Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Kehres Mine Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mt Eaton South P1 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Mt Eaton South P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Mt Eaton South P1 Subsidence In Reclamation
Mt Eaton South P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Mt Eaton South P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Mt Eaton South P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Mt. Eaton Care Ctr. P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Mt. Eaton Care Ctr. P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Mt. Eaton Care Ctr. P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Mt. Eaton North P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mt. Eaton North P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Nagy Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Paint Township Road P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Rescue Mission Shafts P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ruth Hawk Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Senff Road Highwall P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Snively P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Snively P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Taylor Mine Opening P1 Portals 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 Abandoned13 on register
  1. #9896 Portable 28x54 Pioneer Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Independence Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304714
    Abandoned
  2. #9913 Powerscreen XH500 Impact Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Independence Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304713
    Abandoned
  3. D & S Stone LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & S Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3304439
    Abandoned
  4. Jones Limestone Company
    Facility metal/non-metal · Jones Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3303882
    Abandoned
  5. Mast Strip
    Surface coal · Daron Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3303789
    Abandoned
  6. Orrville Tile & Flue Lining Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Orrville Tile & Flue Lining Inc · MSHA ID 3300514
    Abandoned
  7. Powerscreen Turbo Chieftain
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glenn O Hawbaker · MSHA ID 3304697
    Abandoned
  8. Preparation Plant Div
    Facility coal · Holmes Limestone Company · MSHA ID 3303837
    Abandoned
  9. Rodco
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holmes Limestone Company · MSHA ID 3303881
    Abandoned
  10. Rodco #1
    Surface coal · Rodco Inc · MSHA ID 3303676
    Abandoned
  11. Wayne Limestone Quarry & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holmes Limestone Company · MSHA ID 3300085
    Abandoned
  12. Wayne Strip
    coal · Holmes Limestone Company · MSHA ID 3300931
    Abandoned
  13. ZOLLINGER SAND & GRAVEL CO. INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zollinger Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301424
    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
P1 Subsidence 13
P1 Vertical Openings 10
Strip Mine 7
Gravel Pit 7
Gravel Pit 4
P2 Vertical Openings 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 3
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 3
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 2
Mine Dump 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
P1 Portals 2
Disturbed Surface 1
P2 Subsidence 1
Quarry 1
Clay Pit 1
Disturbed Surface - Pit 1
P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 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.