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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Oklahoma County, Oklahoma has 99 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1995. MSHA's register carries 61 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Oklahoma 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)
99
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
61
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1995 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
    25 25.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    74 74.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned61 on register
  1. 15th Street Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · BCM Oklahoma LLC · MSHA ID 3402047
    Abandoned
  2. 15th Street Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · 15th Street Sand LLC · MSHA ID 3401853
    Abandoned
  3. 8th Street Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C E C Sand Inc · MSHA ID 3401174
    Abandoned
  4. Brooks & Mc Connell Construction Corpora
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brooks & Mc Connell Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3400824
    Abandoned
  5. Bucks #1 Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bucks Trucking Company · MSHA ID 3401380
    Abandoned
  6. Bucks #2 Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bucks Trucking Company · MSHA ID 3401204
    Abandoned
  7. C E Wells Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C E Wells & Son Trucking Company · MSHA ID 3401052
    Abandoned
  8. CHOCTAW HAYDITE PIT & PL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chandler Materials Company · MSHA ID 3400864
    Abandoned
  9. Comet Sand And Dump Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Comet Division · MSHA ID 3401268
    Abandoned
  10. Corff #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Corff Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3401484
    Abandoned
  11. Crum Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nova Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400617
    Abandoned
  12. Douglas Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hefner Sand, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 3401982
    Abandoned
  13. Draper Lake Shale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Oklahoma City · MSHA ID 3401749
    Abandoned
  14. Eagle Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duit Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401834
    Abandoned
  15. East Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dolese Bros. Co. · MSHA ID 3402056
    Abandoned
  16. Elmore Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elmore Sand · MSHA ID 3401576
    Abandoned
  17. Fill Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fill Sand Ltd · MSHA ID 3400833
    Abandoned
  18. Frazier Pit No 2 Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shoffner Sand Of Oklahoma Inc · MSHA ID 3400987
    Abandoned
  19. GSD Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · GSD Materials · MSHA ID 3402042
    Abandoned
  20. Harrah Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · BCM Oklahoma LLC · MSHA ID 3402046
    Abandoned
  21. Hefner Lake Shale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Oklahoma City · MSHA ID 3401748
    Abandoned
  22. Hefner Road
    Surface metal/non-metal · Murphy & Perkins Ready Mixed Concrete Company · MSHA ID 3400819
    Abandoned
  23. Jones Facility
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goddard Concrete Company Inc-Sand Div · MSHA ID 3400610
    Abandoned
  24. King Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · King Trucking · MSHA ID 3401732
    Abandoned
  25. Knotts Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Patterson Sand · MSHA ID 3401020
    Abandoned
  26. Lesten Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oklahoma County Dist 3 · MSHA ID 3401051
    Abandoned
  27. MARKLAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Brick Company · MSHA ID 3400120
    Abandoned
  28. Meridian Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Connell Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3401258
    Abandoned
  29. MINICK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Minick Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401296
    Abandoned
  30. Morren Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morren Sand Company · MSHA ID 3400843
    Abandoned
  31. Morren Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morren Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401662
    Abandoned
  32. Murph'S
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawns By Murphy · MSHA ID 3401540
    Abandoned
  33. N Canadian River Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Oklahoma City · MSHA ID 3401750
    Abandoned
  34. North Canadian Holding
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Canadian Holding · MSHA ID 3402095
    Abandoned
  35. OKC PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nova Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401765
    Abandoned
  36. Panther Sand and Materials LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Panther Sand and Materials LLC · MSHA ID 3402098
    Abandoned
  37. Parker Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Switchback Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3402204
    Abandoned
  38. Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3401448
    Abandoned
  39. Poor Boy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Butler Sand · MSHA ID 3401129
    Abandoned
  40. Portland Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3400919
    Abandoned
  41. Post Road Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · BCM Oklahoma LLC · MSHA ID 3402045
    Abandoned
  42. Prairie Park Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dolese Bros Co · MSHA ID 3401802
    Abandoned
  43. Quickway Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quickway Excavating Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401298
    Abandoned
  44. Red Clay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Oklahoma City · MSHA ID 3401747
    Abandoned
  45. SAND DOLLAR
    Surface metal/non-metal · B F D Mining Company Llc · MSHA ID 3401482
    Abandoned
  46. Schwarz #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schwarz Ready Mix Of Okc Inc · MSHA ID 3401214
    Abandoned
  47. Schwarz Sand #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schwarz Sand LLC · MSHA ID 3401486
    Abandoned
  48. Schweitzer Gypsum
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schweitzer Gypsum · MSHA ID 3400271
    Abandoned
  49. SHARP SAND CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sharp Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401495
    Abandoned
  50. Shirley'S Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shirley'S Sand Inc · MSHA ID 3401011
    Abandoned
  51. SOONER ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3400562
    Abandoned
  52. South Council Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401255
    Abandoned
  53. Spencer #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dolese Company · MSHA ID 3401165
    Abandoned
  54. Spencer Pit (#1 Dredge And Plant)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shoffner Sand Of Oklahoma Inc · MSHA ID 3400564
    Abandoned
  55. Spencer Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dolese Company · MSHA ID 3400835
    Abandoned
  56. Stephens Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stephens Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401783
    Abandoned
  57. STEPHENS SAND CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mike Stephens · MSHA ID 3401845
    Abandoned
  58. Stricklin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C S Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400962
    Abandoned
  59. Vermiculite Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · W R Grace & Company · MSHA ID 3401215
    Abandoned
  60. WILDS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duit Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401842
    Abandoned
  61. Wilson Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilson Construction Company · MSHA ID 3401425
    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
Sand Pit 42
Disturbed Surface - Pit 14
Gravel Pit 12
Disturbed Surface 10
Sand Pit 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Clay Pit 3
Gravel Pit 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.