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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Johnston County, Oklahoma

Johnston County, Oklahoma has 160 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1963–1978. MSHA's register carries 19 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Johnston 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)
160
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
19
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 1.2%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    156 97.5%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 1.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned19 on register
  1. Ada Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontotoc Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401256
    Abandoned
  2. Arbuckle Stone LLC Pontotoc Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arbuckle Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3401864
    Abandoned
  3. Autumn Rose Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Autumn Rose Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 3400506
    Abandoned
  4. Autumn Rose Quarry LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Autumn Rose Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 3401952
    Abandoned
  5. Baronet Industries, Inc.-S & G Division
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baronet Industries, Inc. · MSHA ID 3401908
    Abandoned
  6. Blessing Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blessing Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3402112
    Abandoned
  7. Blue River Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 3402114
    Abandoned
  8. District No 2 Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnston County · MSHA ID 3401157
    Abandoned
  9. Five Star Sands Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Five Star Sands Inc. · MSHA ID 3402066
    Abandoned
  10. Glendell Parish Sand & Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glendell Parish Sand & Rock · MSHA ID 3401469
    Abandoned
  11. JOHNSTON CO. #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnston County · MSHA ID 3401158
    Abandoned
  12. Johnston County-District #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnston County · MSHA ID 3401159
    Abandoned
  13. Lee Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lee Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3401498
    Abandoned
  14. LIMESTONE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wapanucka Oolitic Limestone · MSHA ID 3400509
    Abandoned
  15. Mill Creek Material Company
    Facility metal/non-metal · Mill Creek Material Company · MSHA ID 3401370
    Abandoned
  16. Tishomingo Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tishomingo Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3401885
    Abandoned
  17. Troy Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Company LP · MSHA ID 3401581
    Abandoned
  18. Tweed Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Century Granite Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400397
    Abandoned
  19. Willis Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials · MSHA ID 3401949
    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 96
Quarry 16
Gravel Pit 15
Shale Pit 11
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Sand Pit 4
Quarry 3
Disturbed Surface 2
Shale Pit 2
Tailings - Undifferentiated 2
Sand Pit 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.