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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Carter County, Oklahoma

Carter County, Oklahoma has 134 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1963–1978. MSHA's register carries 17 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Carter 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)
134
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
17
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1963–1978 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    2 1.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    132 98.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned17 on register
  1. Arbuckle Materials Inc Gene Autry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duit Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401931
    Abandoned
  2. Ardmore Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe Brown Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401072
    Abandoned
  3. Ardmore Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Criner Hills Crusher · MSHA ID 3401026
    Abandoned
  4. Brown #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe Brown Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401432
    Abandoned
  5. Carroll Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Don Carroll · MSHA ID 3401243
    Abandoned
  6. District #2 Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carter County · MSHA ID 3401507
    Abandoned
  7. Don Carroll
    Surface metal/non-metal · Don Carroll · MSHA ID 3401244
    Abandoned
  8. Embry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Overland Corp · MSHA ID 3401480
    Abandoned
  9. GENE AUTRY LOCATION
    Surface metal/non-metal · Engel Sand · MSHA ID 3401854
    Abandoned
  10. Jones Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & A Equipment · MSHA ID 3401630
    Abandoned
  11. Jones Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jones Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3401221
    Abandoned
  12. Keeler Quarry And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keeler Quarry · MSHA ID 3401318
    Abandoned
  13. LOUANN DAVIS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carter County · MSHA ID 3401506
    Abandoned
  14. Marris Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carter County · MSHA ID 3401069
    Abandoned
  15. Metric Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe Brown Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400628
    Abandoned
  16. Poolville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stephens Company-District #3 · MSHA ID 3401508
    Abandoned
  17. Red River Rock Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red River Rock Inc · MSHA ID 3401276
    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 92
Gravel Pit 31
Quarry 4
Sand Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Disturbed Surface 2
Quarry 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.