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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

Kingfisher County, Oklahoma has 71 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1983; 7 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Kingfisher 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)
71
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
7 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1983 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
    1 1.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    70 98.6%
Named features on the maps7 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Gypsum Pit Quarry - Gypsum
Gypsum Pit Quarry - Gypsum
Gypsum Pit Quarry - Gypsum
Gypsum Pit Quarry - Gypsum
Gypsum Pit Quarry - Gypsum
Gypsum Pit Quarry - Gypsum
Gypsum Pit Quarry - Gypsum

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. Ahlden Lpit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401513
    Abandoned
  2. Ahlden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401521
    Abandoned
  3. Bill'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill'S Dozer Service Inc · MSHA ID 3400991
    Abandoned
  4. Bill'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Plains Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3401328
    Abandoned
  5. Brannon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401519
    Abandoned
  6. Britt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401512
    Abandoned
  7. Cerny Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401509
    Abandoned
  8. Dover Sand Plant LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dover Sand Plant LLC · MSHA ID 3402117
    Abandoned
  9. Hawkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401524
    Abandoned
  10. Jindra Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401517
    Abandoned
  11. Joe Hajek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher Construction Service Company · MSHA ID 3401305
    Abandoned
  12. Joe Hajek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401330
    Abandoned
  13. Kingfisher Co #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401527
    Abandoned
  14. KINGFISHER COUNTY DIST 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401515
    Abandoned
  15. KINGFISHER COUNTY DIST 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401520
    Abandoned
  16. KINGFISHER COUNTY DIST 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401522
    Abandoned
  17. OK Best Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Silica Sands · MSHA ID 3402183
    Abandoned
  18. Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401542
    Abandoned
  19. Plant Number 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401535
    Abandoned
  20. Pope Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401523
    Abandoned
  21. Renner Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401518
    Abandoned
  22. Rother Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Gypsum LLC · MSHA ID 3402100
    Abandoned
  23. Southard Gypsum
    Surface metal/non-metal · United Engines LLC · MSHA ID 3401954
    Abandoned
  24. Tharp Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401511
    Abandoned
  25. Tutty Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401514
    Abandoned
  26. Uhlenhake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kingfisher County · MSHA ID 3401510
    Abandoned
  27. Whittenburg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittenburg & Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400999
    Abandoned
  28. Whittenburg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittenburg & Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401304
    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 - Gypsum 7
Shale Pit 7
Sand Pit 4
Sand Pit 3
Gravel Pit 3
Shale Pit 2
Disturbed Surface 1
Clay Pit 1
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.