Abandoned mines in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   4 4.0%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   16 15.8%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   12 11.9%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   11 10.9%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   1 1.0%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   57 56.4%

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. Bald Hill Strip #1

   Surface coal · Lamms Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400994
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
2. Blue Chip Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Blue Chip Stone Company · MSHA ID 3401326
   Abandoned 1982-12-15
3. Blue Chip Quarry And Mill

   Surface metal/non-metal · Sapphire Stone Company · MSHA ID 3400859
   Abandoned 1980-02-04
4. Crooked Bridge Strip

   Surface coal · Miracle Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401188
   Abandoned 1979-10-30
5. District #2

   Surface metal/non-metal · Okmulgee County · MSHA ID 3401686
   Abandoned 1991-07-29
6. District #3 Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · Okmulgee County · MSHA ID 3401689
   Abandoned 1991-07-29
7. Dja

   Surface coal · Redman-Dunstead Ltd · MSHA ID 3401194
   Abandoned and Sealed 1983-10-13
8. Donna Gay -Strip

   Surface coal · Gocat Inc · MSHA ID 3401039
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
9. Gocat #1

   Surface coal · Gocat Inc · MSHA ID 3401075
   Abandoned and Sealed 1983-01-15
10. Green Country #2 Strip

    Surface coal · Leons Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401113
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
11. Joshua Coal Company

    Surface coal · Joshua Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401062
    Abandoned 2026-02-05
12. Mary J Strip

    Surface coal · Miracle Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401092
    Abandoned 1979-10-12
13. Mine #1

    Surface coal · C & E Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401199
    Abandoned 1981-11-30
14. Morgans Rock & Gravel

    Surface metal/non-metal · Morgan Rock & Gravel · MSHA ID 3400860
    Abandoned 1992-02-03
15. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Wells Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401050
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
16. Pollyanna #1

    Surface coal · P & K Company Ltd · MSHA ID 3400884
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-09-27
17. Pollyanna #4

    Underground coal · Heatherly Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3401633
    Abandoned 1996-10-11
18. Velda Rose

    Surface coal · Manco Energy Corp · MSHA ID 3401170
    Abandoned and Sealed 1983-10-13
19. Viersen No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · M & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401079
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
20. Wainwright Mine

    Surface coal · Stigler Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401060
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
21. Wells #1

    Surface coal · Wells Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401346
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-11-05

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.