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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Choctaw County, Oklahoma

Choctaw County, Oklahoma has 60 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1951–1993. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Choctaw 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)
60
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1951–1993 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 3.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    58 96.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned20 on register
  1. APPLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Company · MSHA ID 3400570
    Abandoned
  2. Bluff Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bluff Materials · MSHA ID 3401657
    Abandoned
  3. Boorhem-Fields Inc-Choctaw Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boorhem-Fields Inc · MSHA ID 3400355
    Abandoned
  4. Boswell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blake Stone Company · MSHA ID 3401578
    Abandoned
  5. Choctaw County-District #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Choctaw County · MSHA ID 3401569
    Abandoned
  6. Choctaw County-District 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Choctaw County · MSHA ID 3401529
    Abandoned
  7. County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Choctaw County · MSHA ID 3401580
    Abandoned
  8. Damron Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Construction Company · MSHA ID 3401201
    Abandoned
  9. Frost Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frost Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3401530
    Abandoned
  10. Griffith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Griffith Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401101
    Abandoned
  11. J & A Enterprises Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & A Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3401753
    Abandoned
  12. J D Mickel Construction Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · J D Mickel Construction Company · MSHA ID 3401701
    Abandoned
  13. KIAMICHI SAND
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Company Lp · MSHA ID 3401795
    Abandoned
  14. Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · David Buster Materials Company · MSHA ID 3401102
    Abandoned
  15. Plant 612
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Smith Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3401153
    Abandoned
  16. Red River Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Co., A Limited Partnership · MSHA ID 3401880
    Abandoned
  17. Sawyer - West
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Company, A Limited Partnership · MSHA ID 3401935
    Abandoned
  18. Shawhart Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fort Towson Stone · MSHA ID 3401001
    Abandoned
  19. Two State Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Two State Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400391
    Abandoned
  20. Willmouth
    Surface metal/non-metal · H C Rustin Corp · MSHA ID 3401493
    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 43
Quarry 12
Quarry 3
Disturbed Surface 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.