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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma has 61 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1958–1979. MSHA's register carries 23 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Pottawatomie 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
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1958–1979 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
    1 1.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    60 98.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned23 on register
  1. A C & D Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · A C & D Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401456
    Abandoned
  2. Allen Farms Sand Mine No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allen Farms Inc · MSHA ID 3401933
    Abandoned
  3. B & B Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401320
    Abandoned
  4. C & L Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & L Sand Material · MSHA ID 3401599
    Abandoned
  5. Chancellor Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Connell Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3400908
    Abandoned
  6. Eubanks Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bratcher'S Sand & Dirt · MSHA ID 3401211
    Abandoned
  7. Goodnight Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pottawatomie County · MSHA ID 3401607
    Abandoned
  8. Harjo Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & W Truck Service · MSHA ID 3401389
    Abandoned
  9. Hurst Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hurst Gravel · MSHA ID 3401290
    Abandoned
  10. Johnson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pottawatomie County · MSHA ID 3401419
    Abandoned
  11. K & M Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Shawnee · MSHA ID 3401451
    Abandoned
  12. Ledbetter Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnny Ledbetter · MSHA ID 3401291
    Abandoned
  13. Madole Pit Or Raymond Knight Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & H Backhoe · MSHA ID 3401186
    Abandoned
  14. Markwell Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Markwell Sand · MSHA ID 3401124
    Abandoned
  15. No 3 Corff Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Corff Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3401046
    Abandoned
  16. O'Daniel Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jack O'Daniel · MSHA ID 3401431
    Abandoned
  17. Oklahoma Aztec-Konawa
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oklahoma Aztec Company Inc · MSHA ID 3402101
    Abandoned
  18. Petree Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Don Petree Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401475
    Abandoned
  19. Pierce Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barnett Trucking Service · MSHA ID 3401185
    Abandoned
  20. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Earthmovers Inc · MSHA ID 3401691
    Abandoned
  21. R & D Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & D Truck Company · MSHA ID 3401438
    Abandoned
  22. Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Diamond B Services LLC · MSHA ID 3402219
    Abandoned
  23. Shawnee Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shawnee Paving Company · MSHA ID 3401139
    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 43
Sand Pit 8
Gravel Pit 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Quarry 1
Disturbed Surface 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.