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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Muskogee County, Oklahoma has 56 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1948–1974. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 51 problems in the county, 32 of them not yet reclaimed. 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 Muskogee 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)
56
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
32
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1948–1974 51 OSMRE problems, 19 reclaimed 6 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    22 20.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    34 31.8%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    13 12.1%
  4. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    38 35.5%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems51 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Carbonex-cook P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Carbonex-cook P1 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Carbonex-cook P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Carbonex-cook P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments In Reclamation
Carbonex-cook P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Carbonex-cook P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Carbonex-cook P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Carbonex-cook P1 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Carbonex-cook P2 Clogged Streams In Reclamation
Carbonex-cook P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Carbonex-cook P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Carbonex-cook P2 Industrial/Residential Waste In Reclamation
Carbonex-cook P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Carbonex-cook P3 Pits In Reclamation
Carbonex-cook P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Cherokee West P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cherokee West P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Cherokee West P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Cherokee West P3 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Dirty Creek P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Dirty Creek P2 Clogged Streams In Reclamation
Dirty Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Dirty Creek P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Dirty Creek P2 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Dirty Creek P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Dirty Creek P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Dirty Creek P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Mendenhall-stark P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Mendenhall-stark P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Mendenhall-stark P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Mendenhall-stark P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Mendenhall-stark P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Mendenhall-stark P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Porum Northeast P3 Pits In Reclamation
Porum Northeast P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Porum Northeast P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Porum Northeast P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Porum Southeast P1 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Porum Southeast P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Porum Southeast P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Porum Southeast P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Porum Southeast P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Porum Southeast P1 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Porum Southeast P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Porum Southeast P2 Clogged Streams In Reclamation
Porum Southeast P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Porum Southeast P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Porum Southeast P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Porum Southeast P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Porum Southeast P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Porum Southeast P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. Alpine Mine #3
    Surface coal · Alpine Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3401286
    Abandoned and Sealed
  2. Black Mountain Mine
    Surface coal · Black Mountain Energy Inc · MSHA ID 3401422
    Abandoned and Sealed
  3. Briartown Mine
    Surface coal · Hickory Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3401696
    Abandoned
  4. Castle Hill #1
    Surface coal · Castle Hill Energy Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401434
    Abandoned
  5. D&P Mine #1
    Surface coal · D & P Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401231
    Abandoned and Sealed
  6. Eagle Mine
    Surface coal · Industrial Management Services Inc · MSHA ID 3401637
    Abandoned
  7. Eagle Mine No 2
    Surface coal · Silvercreek Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3401754
    Abandoned
  8. John Carter No. 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Production Co of Stigler Inc · MSHA ID 3402134
    Abandoned
  9. Kemp Stone Company Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kemp Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401485
    Abandoned
  10. Kolite Division
    Facility coal · Mc Cabe Woody & Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401226
    Abandoned
  11. Maranatha #1
    Surface coal · Maranatha Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3401250
    Abandoned
  12. Mine No 2
    Surface coal · Turner Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3401241
    Abandoned and Sealed
  13. Muskogee County Dist #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Muskogee County · MSHA ID 3401603
    Abandoned
  14. Muskogee County-District #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Muskogee County · MSHA ID 3401604
    Abandoned
  15. Muskogee County-District #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Muskogee County · MSHA ID 3401605
    Abandoned
  16. No 2 Strip
    Surface coal · Briartown Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400140
    Abandoned
  17. No 2 Strip
    Surface coal · Briartown Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400264
    Abandoned
  18. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big Deal Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3401659
    Abandoned
  19. Pollyanna #5
    Surface coal · P & K Company Ltd · MSHA ID 3401568
    Abandoned
  20. Porum Mine
    Surface coal · Carbonex Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400454
    Abandoned and Sealed
  21. River Valley No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · River Valley Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 3400901
    Abandoned
  22. S & S Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Industrial Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 3402020
    Abandoned
  23. Shale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Warmack & Company · MSHA ID 3401608
    Abandoned
  24. SINTERTEC DIV OF BPI INC
    Facility metal/non-metal · Sintertec-Div/BPI Inc · MSHA ID 3401663
    Abandoned
  25. Sooner Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sooner Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3402019
    Abandoned
  26. Taft Mine #5
    Surface coal · Mylu Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401404
    Abandoned and Sealed
  27. Warner No 1
    Surface coal · Mylu Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401303
    Abandoned
  28. Warner Pit No 1
    Surface coal · Imperial Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401078
    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
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 15
Gravel Pit 10
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 8
Shale Pit 8
P3 Spoil Area 8
Quarry 8
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 7
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 6
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 6
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 5
Strip Mine 5
P2 Clogged Streams 5
P3 Pits 4
Sand Pit 3
Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Sand Pit 1
Clay Pit 1
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Borrow 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.