Abandoned mines in Craig County, Oklahoma

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   21 10.5%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   87 43.5%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   20 10.0%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   16 8.0%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   56 28.0%

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.

1. Bills No 4 Mine Strip

   Surface coal · Bills Coal Co · MSHA ID 3400258
   Abandoned 1972-06-06
2. Bowlin Mine

   Surface coal · Tri-C Energy Inc · MSHA ID 3401668
   Abandoned 1991-07-19
3. Bowlin Springs Mine

   Surface coal · Phoenix Mining Company · MSHA ID 3402077
   Abandoned 2010-12-07
4. CRAIG COUNTY PITS

   Surface metal/non-metal · Craig County · MSHA ID 3401676
   Abandoned 2001-08-13
5. Crystal Coal Strip

   Surface coal · Crystal Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401083
   Abandoned 1978-03-01
6. Culver Mine

   Surface coal · Phoenix Mining Company · MSHA ID 3402094
   Abandoned 2012-09-24
7. Danita No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Design Services Inc · MSHA ID 3401094
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
8. Defiance

   Surface coal · Carbonex Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401149
   Abandoned and Sealed 1981-09-22
9. Four Star No 4 Mine

   Surface coal · Four Star Mining Co Inc · MSHA ID 3400958
   Abandoned 1976-11-04
10. Green Country

    Surface coal · Leons Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400736
    Abandoned and Sealed 1982-07-09
11. Kelley Coal Strip

    Surface coal · Urco Energy Inc · MSHA ID 3400982
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
12. King Pit No 1

    Surface coal · King Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401127
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
13. Nelson Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Peerless Materials Company · MSHA ID 3400922
    Abandoned 1992-02-11
14. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Custom Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400888
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
15. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Chelsea Hills Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400963
    Abandoned 1977-08-18
16. No 101 Strip

    Surface coal · Tri-Con Limited · MSHA ID 3400977
    Abandoned 1978-09-11
17. Paisano Nodaway No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Paisano Nodaway Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3400996
    Abandoned 1978-08-07
18. Phoenix

    Surface coal · Phoenix Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401403
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-12-21
19. Phoenix #4

    Surface coal · B & C Inc · MSHA ID 3401583
    Abandoned 1990-04-25
20. Phoenix Coal Co Tipple

    Facility coal · Phoenix Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401366
    Abandoned 1983-02-16
21. Phoenix No 3

    Surface coal · Phoenix Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401343
    Abandoned 2013-12-05
22. Phoenix No 6

    Surface coal · Brakefield Equipment Inc · MSHA ID 3401757
    Abandoned 2010-01-27
23. Pit And Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · D & W Rock Company · MSHA ID 3400656
    Abandoned 1980-05-16
24. Rafter J

    Surface coal · Transwestern Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401516
    Abandoned 1991-11-27
25. Rancher'S Mine 4

    Surface coal · Ranchers Coal Inc · MSHA ID 3401443
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-12-18
26. Rogers County #2

    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400274
    Abandoned 1992-10-06
27. Russell Creek

    Surface coal · Russell Creek Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400978
    Abandoned 1980-02-08
28. Smith Gravel Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Craig County · MSHA ID 3401138
    Abandoned 1982-05-21
29. TALLMAN

    Surface metal/non-metal · Craig County District #2 · MSHA ID 3401677
    Abandoned 2003-10-11
30. Welch

    Surface coal · Bills Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400259
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-12-05
31. Welch Mine

    Surface coal · Patch Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401353
    Abandoned 1996-04-09
32. Welch Mine

    Surface coal · Inter-Chem Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401545
    Abandoned and Sealed 1988-06-23
33. Welch Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Turner Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3401357
    Abandoned and Sealed 1986-05-06
34. Welch Rail Facility

    Facility coal · Ranchers Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401428
    Abandoned 1987-03-25
35. White Oak Tipple

    Facility coal · Tiger Industrial Transportation Systems Inc · MSHA ID 3400897
    Abandoned 1985-11-18
36. White Oak Train Loading Facility

    Facility coal · Savage Coal Service Corp · MSHA ID 3401533
    Abandoned 1987-09-23

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Ottawa County 605
• Le Flore County 219
• Rogers County 164
• Johnston County 160
• Haskell County 151
• Carter County 134
• McCurtain County 128
• Bryan County 126
• Seminole County 121
• Texas County 115
• Okfuskee County 114
• Cleveland County 112

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.