Abandoned mines in Latimer County, Oklahoma

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   31 22.6%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   18 13.1%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   26 19.0%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   7 5.1%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   55 40.1%

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. Boggy Hollow Stone

   Surface metal/non-metal · Boggy Hollow Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3402171
   Abandoned 2023-07-11
2. Bull Hill #2

   Surface coal · Farrell-Cooper Mining Company · MSHA ID 3402164
   Abandoned 2026-02-05
3. Circle G Stone #2

   Surface metal/non-metal · Circle G Stone · MSHA ID 3401969
   Abandoned 2008-04-01
4. Diamondback Stone

   Surface metal/non-metal · Diamondback Stone · MSHA ID 3401967
   Abandoned 2017-08-09
5. District #2 Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · Latimer County · MSHA ID 3401674
   Abandoned 1991-08-27
6. District #3 Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · Latimer County · MSHA ID 3401673
   Abandoned 1991-08-27
7. HARRISON QUARRY

   Surface metal/non-metal · Sherwood Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401053
   Abandoned 1998-06-25
8. Lucas Mine #1

   Surface coal · Quick Construction Company · MSHA ID 3401355
   Abandoned and Sealed 1982-09-13
9. Mule Creek

   Surface metal/non-metal · Mule Creek Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3401968
   Abandoned 2021-04-01
10. Oaktown Nix

    Surface metal/non-metal · Arkoma Enterprise · MSHA ID 3402166
    Abandoned 2019-09-16
11. Panther Mountain Rock

    Surface metal/non-metal · Tiger Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3401922
    Abandoned 2025-07-11
12. Pine Creek Crusher

    Surface metal/non-metal · J M T Corp · MSHA ID 3401136
    Abandoned 1979-06-20
13. R #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Heartland Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3401976
    Abandoned 2022-03-17
14. Red Oak Mine

    Surface coal · Farrell-Cooper Mining Company · MSHA ID 3400976
    Abandoned 2001-10-02
15. Red Oak Mine

    Surface coal · Buckhorn Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401193
    Abandoned 1980-08-21
16. Red Oak Wash Plant

    Facility coal · Farrell-Cooper Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401830
    Abandoned 2009-03-19
17. Section 24 Fanshawe

    Surface metal/non-metal · Neff Building Stone Supply · MSHA ID 3401720
    Abandoned 1992-03-11
18. TURKEY CREEK

    Surface metal/non-metal · TURKEY CREEK STONE · MSHA ID 3401911
    Abandoned 2013-07-10
19. Varnell Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Oklahoma Natural Stone and Hardscapes · MSHA ID 3402142
    Abandoned 2023-08-22
20. WILBURTON #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · ROCK-IT NATURAL STONE, INC. · MSHA ID 3402147
    Abandoned 2017-06-21

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.