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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Bryan County, Oklahoma

Bryan County, Oklahoma has 126 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1957–1980. 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 Bryan 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)
126
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1957–1980 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    126 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned18 on register
  1. #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · James L Williams · MSHA ID 3401490
    Abandoned
  2. #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · James L Williams · MSHA ID 3401616
    Abandoned
  3. CADDO
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moblie Crushing, Inc. · MSHA ID 3402031
    Abandoned
  4. City Of Durant
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Durant · MSHA ID 3401491
    Abandoned
  5. Claude Edwards Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Improvement Company · MSHA ID 3401610
    Abandoned
  6. Colbert #2038
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3401619
    Abandoned
  7. District 3 Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bryan County-Ok · MSHA ID 3401104
    Abandoned
  8. District No 1 Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bryan County-Ok · MSHA ID 3401110
    Abandoned
  9. Harris #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe Brown Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401706
    Abandoned
  10. Hope Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bonham Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3400353
    Abandoned
  11. Hope Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bonham Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3401246
    Abandoned
  12. KENEFIC ROCK CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lattimore Materials Company Lp · MSHA ID 3400902
    Abandoned
  13. Mc Connell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Connell Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3401245
    Abandoned
  14. Oklahoma Sand (Oks) Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oklahoma Sand (Oks) Inc · MSHA ID 3401374
    Abandoned
  15. Rustin
    Surface metal/non-metal · H C Rustin Corp · MSHA ID 3401492
    Abandoned
  16. Texoma Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texoma Materials · MSHA ID 3401643
    Abandoned
  17. TEXOMA SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates Central Inc · MSHA ID 3401693
    Abandoned
  18. Yuba Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boorhem-Fields Inc · MSHA ID 3401489
    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 69
Quarry 23
Gravel Pit 15
Sand Pit 13
Sand Pit 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Other counties in OklahomaAll 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.