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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

Pontotoc County, Oklahoma has 102 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1957–1993. MSHA's register carries 22 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Pontotoc 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)
102
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1957–1993 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
    4 3.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    98 96.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned22 on register
  1. Ada Brick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ada Brick Products Inc · MSHA ID 3400122
    Abandoned
  2. Ada Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ideal Basic Industries-Cement Division · MSHA ID 3401288
    Abandoned
  3. Ada Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe Brown Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401264
    Abandoned
  4. Bottom Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · W A Timmons Excavating Contractor · MSHA ID 3401142
    Abandoned
  5. C & B Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & B Stone · MSHA ID 3401893
    Abandoned
  6. Cole Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cole Stone Company · MSHA ID 3401284
    Abandoned
  7. Corbin Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cook Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401470
    Abandoned
  8. Danaco Exploration International Corbin
    Surface metal/non-metal · Danaco Exploration International Inc · MSHA ID 3401477
    Abandoned
  9. Danaco Exploration Pit #1 & 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Danaco Exploration International Inc · MSHA ID 3401409
    Abandoned
  10. District #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontotoc County · MSHA ID 3401559
    Abandoned
  11. District 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontotoc County · MSHA ID 3401561
    Abandoned
  12. Engel Pit Engel Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Engel Sand · MSHA ID 3401143
    Abandoned
  13. Fittstone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fittstone Inc · MSHA ID 3401487
    Abandoned
  14. J & W Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & W Construction · MSHA ID 3401656
    Abandoned
  15. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cummins Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401471
    Abandoned
  16. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mobile Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3400997
    Abandoned
  17. PONTOTOC PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontotoc County · MSHA ID 3401823
    Abandoned
  18. R & D Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & D Sand Pit · MSHA ID 3401575
    Abandoned
  19. Ryan'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ryan'S Shale Pit · MSHA ID 3401560
    Abandoned
  20. Shale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pontotoc County · MSHA ID 3401558
    Abandoned
  21. Wigley Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Century Building Stone Company · MSHA ID 3401054
    Abandoned
  22. Wigley Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & O Materials Corp · MSHA ID 3400508
    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 38
Sand Pit 14
Quarry 13
Gravel Pit 11
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Disturbed Surface 4
Sand Pit 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Quarry 3
Clay Pit 2
Shale Pit 2
Clay 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.