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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

Pittsburg County, Oklahoma has 61 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1967–1978, including 6 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 105 problems in the county, 63 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 42 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Pittsburg 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)
61
Mine openings
6
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
63
MSHA mines marked abandoned
42
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1967–1978 105 OSMRE problems, 42 reclaimed 7 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    42 25.3%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    11 6.6%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    44 26.5%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    10 6.0%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    2 1.2%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    57 34.3%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems105 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Alderson-bache Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Alderson-bache Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Alderson-bache Mines P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Alderson-bache Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Alderson-bache Mines P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Blocker Area Mines P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Blocker Area Mines P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Blocker Area Mines P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending
Blocker Area Mines P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Pending
Blocker Area Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Blocker Area Mines P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Blocker Area Mines P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Blue Creek P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Blue Creek P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Blue Creek P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Blue Creek P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Pending
Blue Creek P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption In Reclamation
Blue Creek P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Blue Creek P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Blue Creek P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Blue Creek P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Blue Creek P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Buck And Other Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Buck And Other Mines P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Buck And Other Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Buck And Other Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Carbon And Adamson Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Carbon And Adamson Mines P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Carbon And Adamson Mines P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Carbon And Adamson Mines P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption In Reclamation
Carbon And Adamson Mines P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Pending
Carbon And Adamson Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Carbon And Adamson Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Carbon And Adamson Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Carbon And Adamson Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Carbon And Adamson Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Carbon And Adamson Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Dow And Jones Academy Area P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Dow And Jones Academy Area P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Dow And Jones Academy Area P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Dow And Jones Academy Area P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Dow And Jones Academy Area P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Dow And Jones Academy Area P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Dow And Jones Academy Area P2 Portals In Reclamation
Dow And Jones Academy Area P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Dow And Jones Academy Area P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Dow And Jones Academy Area P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Featherston Slope Mines P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Hartshorne Southeast P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Hartshorne Southeast P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hartshorne Southeast P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Pending
Hartshorne Southeast P2 Portals In Reclamation
Hartshorne Southeast P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Hartshorne Southeast P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Kiowa Underground Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Kiowa Underground Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Manuel Higgins Strip Mines P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Manuel Higgins Strip Mines P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Mc Alester City Area Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Mc Alester City Area Mines P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mc Alester City Area Mines P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Mc Alester City Area Mines P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Mc Alester City Area Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Mcalester Sw Underground Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Mcalester Sw Underground Mines P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Mcalester Sw Underground Mines P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Milby-dow Coal Co. P1 Portals In Reclamation
Milby-dow Coal Co. P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Milby-dow Coal Co. P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Milby-dow Coal Co. P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Milby-dow Coal Co. P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Milby-dow Coal Co. P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Milby-dow Coal Co. P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Milby-dow Coal Co. P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Pending
Milby-dow Coal Co. P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Ne Mcalester & Krebs Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Ne Mcalester & Krebs Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Ok - Pittsburg - Fea P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Orlis Kelly And Other Slope Mines P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Pittsburg Blanco Underground Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Pittsburg Blanco Underground Mines P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Pittsburg Blanco Underground Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Pittsburg Blanco Underground Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Pittsburg Blanco Underground Mines P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Quinton Slope Mines P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Quinton Slope Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Richville-carbon Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Richville-carbon Mines P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Richville-carbon Mines P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Richville-carbon Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Richville-carbon Mines P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Richville-carbon Mines P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Savanna Underground Mines P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Savanna Underground Mines P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Savanna Underground Mines P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
South Shoreline Lake Eufaula P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
South Shoreline Lake Eufaula P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Stipe Ranch P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Stipe Ranch P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Stipe Ranch P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Stipe Ranch P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Stipe Ranch P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending
Stipe Ranch P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Stipe Ranch P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Stipe Ranch P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending

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 Abandoned42 on register
  1. Blocker #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blue Creek Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3401894
    Abandoned
  2. Blocker No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Green Country Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400790
    Abandoned
  3. Buffalo Mountain
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & W Stone Corporation · MSHA ID 3401928
    Abandoned
  4. Cable Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Connell Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3401032
    Abandoned
  5. Capitol Stone No. 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capitol Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3402111
    Abandoned
  6. Diamond A Stone Mine #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Diamond A Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3402087
    Abandoned
  7. District #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pittsburg County · MSHA ID 3401415
    Abandoned
  8. Don Hall Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Don L Hall · MSHA ID 3401661
    Abandoned
  9. Dow Test Burn
    Surface coal · Delta Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 3401536
    Abandoned
  10. Enterprise Mine
    Surface coal · Mineral Resources Corp · MSHA ID 3401209
    Abandoned
  11. Enterprise Strip
    Surface coal · Western Continental Of Oklahoma Inc · MSHA ID 3400529
    Abandoned
  12. Gonzales Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gonzales Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401171
    Abandoned
  13. Green Country-Nebo No 1
    Surface coal · K W J Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401319
    Abandoned and Sealed
  14. Hall Sand Strip & Moon Sand Strip
    Surface metal/non-metal · Don L Hall Excavating & Sand Company · MSHA ID 3400634
    Abandoned
  15. Hartshorne Quarry (Carrolton Property)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Colaska Production Company · MSHA ID 3401164
    Abandoned
  16. Hartshorne Quarry 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stringfellow & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3400699
    Abandoned
  17. Homer Stephens
    Surface metal/non-metal · H L Stephens-General Contractor · MSHA ID 3401574
    Abandoned
  18. KREBBS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · BLUEBIRD STONE · MSHA ID 3402131
    Abandoned
  19. Lou No 2
    Surface coal · Woodside Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401368
    Abandoned and Sealed
  20. M & G Rock & Stone LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & G Rock & Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3401994
    Abandoned
  21. Maranatha Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · McKee Stone Company · MSHA ID 3401900
    Abandoned
  22. No 1
    Underground coal · P & K Company Ltd · MSHA ID 3401501
    Abandoned and Sealed
  23. No 3 Strip
    Surface coal · Four Star Mining Co Inc · MSHA ID 3400957
    Abandoned
  24. Oklahoma Sandstone LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oklahoma Sandstone LLC · MSHA ID 3401948
    Abandoned
  25. Peaceable Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jenson Sand Company · MSHA ID 3400872
    Abandoned
  26. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tissington & Stipe Sand Company · MSHA ID 3400871
    Abandoned
  27. Pittsburg County District #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pittsburg County · MSHA ID 3401134
    Abandoned
  28. Pittsburg County District 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pittsburg County · MSHA ID 3401416
    Abandoned
  29. Pittsburg County Landfill
    Surface coal · Haskell Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3401776
    Abandoned
  30. Pollyanna #2
    Surface coal · P & K Company Ltd · MSHA ID 3401372
    Abandoned and Sealed
  31. Pollyanna #3
    Surface coal · P & K Company Ltd · MSHA ID 3400825
    Abandoned and Sealed
  32. Pollyanna #3
    Underground coal · O C & W Corp · MSHA ID 3401531
    Abandoned and Sealed
  33. Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Stone Company · MSHA ID 3402069
    Abandoned
  34. Quniton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · L&W Stone Corporation · MSHA ID 3401956
    Abandoned
  35. Rattler Ridge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kody Rock LLC · MSHA ID 3402156
    Abandoned
  36. Savanna Mine
    Underground coal · Delta Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 3401537
    Abandoned
  37. Savanna Test Burn
    Surface coal · Delta Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 3401494
    Abandoned and Sealed
  38. Simon #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Simon Stone Co. · MSHA ID 3401980
    Abandoned
  39. T-STONE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · T-STONE · MSHA ID 3401963
    Abandoned
  40. Tony Farley Trucking
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tony Farley Trucking · MSHA ID 3401033
    Abandoned
  41. Westhoff No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Westhoff Bros Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401073
    Abandoned
  42. Wilburton #1 Liles Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Liles Quarries · MSHA ID 3401974
    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 19
P2 Vertical Openings 16
P1 Subsidence 16
P2 Subsidence 14
P1 Vertical Openings 10
P2 Portals 9
Disturbed Surface - Pit 8
Sand Pit 8
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 6
Mine Shaft 6
P3 Gobs 6
Quarry 5
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 4
Quarry 4
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 4
Disturbed Surface 3
P3 Mine Opening 3
Sand Pit 3
P3 Spoil Area 3
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 2
P1 Surface Burning 2
Shale Pit 2
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 2
Gravel Pit 2
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 2
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 1
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 1
Shale Pit 1
P3 Pits 1
P2 Clogged Streams 1
P1 Portals 1
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 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.