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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Cleveland County, Oklahoma has 112 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1995. MSHA's register carries 35 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Cleveland 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)
112
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
35
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1995 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
    35 31.2%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    77 68.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned35 on register
  1. #1a
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3401497
    Abandoned
  2. 149th Street Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steve'S Truck & Tractor Service · MSHA ID 3401173
    Abandoned
  3. Adid Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ace River Products Inc · MSHA ID 3401772
    Abandoned
  4. B & J Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & J Sand · MSHA ID 3401377
    Abandoned
  5. Big (4) Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big (4) Pit · MSHA ID 3401012
    Abandoned
  6. Bruce Payne
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruce Payne · MSHA ID 3401646
    Abandoned
  7. Cherokee Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cherokee Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401421
    Abandoned
  8. DANIELS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Deborah Daniels · MSHA ID 3401846
    Abandoned
  9. Ed Killoffer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brooks & Mc Connell Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3401408
    Abandoned
  10. Ernest Howery Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Norman · MSHA ID 3401047
    Abandoned
  11. General Materials MacArthur Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · General Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 3402189
    Abandoned
  12. Hicks Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dirt Company · MSHA ID 3401468
    Abandoned
  13. Homer Cunningham Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keller Trucking · MSHA ID 3401013
    Abandoned
  14. Huto Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · King Trucking · MSHA ID 3401602
    Abandoned
  15. J & J Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · John'S Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3401496
    Abandoned
  16. Jamison Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southside Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3401280
    Abandoned
  17. John'S
    Surface metal/non-metal · John'S Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3401647
    Abandoned
  18. Kinsey Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kinsey Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3401423
    Abandoned
  19. LE-1343
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westhoma Industries Llc · MSHA ID 3401849
    Abandoned
  20. Little Axe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cleveland County Warehouse District 2 · MSHA ID 3400879
    Abandoned
  21. May Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · May Avenue Sand Products Company · MSHA ID 3401122
    Abandoned
  22. Nelson Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelson Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3401541
    Abandoned
  23. Newcastle #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schwarz Sand, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 3401907
    Abandoned
  24. Noble Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Noble Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401088
    Abandoned
  25. Norman Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Canadian Contracting Company · MSHA ID 3400896
    Abandoned
  26. Norman Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tommy Schrader Construction Company · MSHA ID 3400851
    Abandoned
  27. Oklahoma Construction Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oklahoma Construction Materials LLC · MSHA ID 3400616
    Abandoned
  28. Oklahoma Top Soil Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oklahoma Top Soil Company · MSHA ID 3401424
    Abandoned
  29. PAYNE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruce Payne · MSHA ID 3401837
    Abandoned
  30. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Canadian Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401203
    Abandoned
  31. RUBY RIDGE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westhoma Industries Llc · MSHA ID 3401848
    Abandoned
  32. SHIRLEY SAND
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand Express Inc · MSHA ID 3401835
    Abandoned
  33. Shirley Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shirley'S Sand Inc · MSHA ID 3401207
    Abandoned
  34. Sunny Valley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunny Valley Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401650
    Abandoned
  35. Sunny Valley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John'S Trucking Service · MSHA ID 3401695
    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
Disturbed Surface - Pit 22
Gravel Pit 20
Gravel Pit 19
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 13
Sand Pit 13
Disturbed Surface 9
Sand Pit 9
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
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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.