Abandoned mines in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   2 1.1%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   22 12.0%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   66 36.1%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   25 13.7%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   68 37.2%

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. BFE-1

   Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3401923
   Abandoned 2005-06-20
2. Circle D Material Pit #1

   Surface metal/non-metal · Circle D Construction & Excavation, LLC · MSHA ID 3402188
   Abandoned 2019-04-05
3. D & L GRAVEL CO.

   Surface metal/non-metal · D & L Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3401225
   Abandoned 1998-04-01
4. Gore

   Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Mining Corp · MSHA ID 3401721
   Abandoned 1991-05-14
5. HO2018

   Surface metal/non-metal · Hokie Okie Stone · MSHA ID 3402029
   Abandoned 2021-09-20
6. Hoffman Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Hoffman Wilson Land Company, LLC · MSHA ID 3402167
   Abandoned 2024-01-31
7. Jeffrey Sand Dock 10

   Facility coal · Jeffrey Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401232
   Abandoned 1980-02-14
8. MARBLE CITY GRAVEL INCORPORATED

   Surface metal/non-metal · Marble City Gravel Incorporated · MSHA ID 3401858
   Abandoned 2006-12-01
9. Marble City Mill

   Facility metal/non-metal · St Clair Lime Company · MSHA ID 3400787
   Abandoned 1978-07-13
10. Mc Coy Ford Crusher

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sequoyah County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3400882
    Abandoned 1981-03-31
11. Moore Of Arkansas

    Surface metal/non-metal · Moore Of Arkansas · MSHA ID 3401550
    Abandoned 1989-04-11
12. Muldrow 1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Mule Creek Stone LLC · MSHA ID 3402182
    Abandoned 2026-01-13
13. PIT #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Terrell Dump Trucking · MSHA ID 3401896
    Abandoned 2003-05-12
14. Plant #5

    Surface metal/non-metal · Jeffrey Sand Company · MSHA ID 3400446
    Abandoned 1993-06-07
15. PORTABLE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sequoyah County · MSHA ID 3401622
    Abandoned 2001-08-13
16. PORTABLE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sequoyah County · MSHA ID 3401623
    Abandoned 2001-08-13
17. S & S Sand

    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Sand-Gravel · MSHA ID 3401505
    Abandoned and Sealed 2002-03-06
18. Sallisaw Lime Plant

    Facility metal/non-metal · St Clair Lime Company · MSHA ID 3400043
    Abandoned 1978-07-13
19. Sequoyah County - District #3

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sequoyah County · MSHA ID 3401621
    Abandoned 1991-09-03
20. Sequoyah Strip No 1

    Surface coal · Frank E Sims Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401009
    Abandoned 1978-02-16
21. Smith Sand & Gravel Incorporated

    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3401644
    Abandoned 1990-02-13
22. Watts Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · T & M Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3401224
    Abandoned 2026-01-13

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.