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Abandoned mines in Wagoner County, Oklahoma

Wagoner County, Oklahoma has 46 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1948–1993; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 48 problems in the county, 31 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Wagoner 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)
46
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
31
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1948–1993 48 OSMRE problems, 17 reclaimed 4 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    29 30.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    17 18.1%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    11 11.7%
  4. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    37 39.4%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Blue Mound Rock Quarry Quarry - Rock

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems48 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Adams Creek North P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Adams Creek North P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Adams Creek North P2 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Adams Creek North P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Adams Creek North P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Adams Creek South P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Adams Creek South P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Adams Creek South P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Adams Creek South P2 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Adams Creek West P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Adams Creek West P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Adams Creek West P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Adams Creek West P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Adams Creek West P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Boy Scouts P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Boy Scouts P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Boy Scouts P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Boy Scouts P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Boy Scouts P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Camp Russell P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Camp Russell P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Camp Russell P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Camp Russell P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Camp Russell P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Camp Russell P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Camp Russell P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Peabody-combs-mccollough P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Peabody-combs-mccollough P3 Pits In Reclamation
Peabody-combs-mccollough P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Peabody-combs-mccollough P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Porter West P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Porter West P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Robertson-hutter P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Robertson-hutter P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Robertson-hutter P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Robertson-hutter P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
Robson North P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Robson North P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Robson North P2 Hazardous Water Bodies In Reclamation
Robson North P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Robson North P2 Industrial/Residential Waste In Reclamation
Robson North P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Pending
Robson North P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Robson North P3 Pits In Reclamation
Robson North P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Robson North P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Secrest P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Secrest 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 Abandoned26 on register
  1. Bankoff Mine
    Surface coal · Bankoff Oil · MSHA ID 3401450
    Abandoned and Sealed
  2. Bill Coal Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wagoner County · MSHA ID 3401463
    Abandoned
  3. Broken Arrow #2 Strip
    Surface coal · Marad Exploration Corp · MSHA ID 3400992
    Abandoned
  4. D & H Dirt
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & H Dirt · MSHA ID 3400915
    Abandoned
  5. Davault Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jim'S Loader Service · MSHA ID 3401641
    Abandoned
  6. Dill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arval Catlett & John A Dill · MSHA ID 3401089
    Abandoned
  7. F&F SAND
    Surface metal/non-metal · F & F Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3401528
    Abandoned
  8. Greenhill Sand 1
    Facility metal/non-metal · Greenhill Sand · MSHA ID 3402220
    Abandoned
  9. Haskell Plant #20
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holliday Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3400445
    Abandoned
  10. Jerry Livingston
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jerry Livingston Trucking · MSHA ID 3401191
    Abandoned
  11. Joe Allen Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sinor Sand Company · MSHA ID 3400603
    Abandoned
  12. John'S Fault #7
    Surface coal · Paulson Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3401376
    Abandoned and Sealed
  13. Lewis No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Liberty Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401037
    Abandoned
  14. M & R Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & R Sand · MSHA ID 3401375
    Abandoned
  15. Mine No 1
    Surface coal · Eastoak Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400954
    Abandoned and Sealed
  16. Muskogee Sand Co, Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Muskogee Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401249
    Abandoned
  17. Oklahoma Specialty Minerals
    Facility metal/non-metal · Oklahoma Specialty Minerals Corp · MSHA ID 3401591
    Abandoned
  18. Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coweta Sand Company · MSHA ID 3401222
    Abandoned
  19. Porter Mine No 1
    Surface coal · Turner Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3401242
    Abandoned
  20. Red Bird Mine
    Surface coal · Industrial Management Services Inc · MSHA ID 3401729
    Abandoned
  21. Shamrock No 2 Strip
    Surface coal · Shamrock Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401162
    Abandoned
  22. The Red Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sinor Sand Company · MSHA ID 3400965
    Abandoned
  23. U S Government Land
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wagoner County · MSHA ID 3401462
    Abandoned
  24. Woodside No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · Woodside Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401363
    Abandoned and Sealed
  25. Yocham Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yocham Sand · MSHA ID 3401624
    Abandoned
  26. Yocham Sand Ii
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yocham Sand · MSHA ID 3401625
    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
Strip Mine 23
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 15
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 14
P3 Spoil Area 11
Gravel Pit 10
P3 Pits 4
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Quarry 2
Coal Mine 2
Shale Pit 1
Quarry - Rock 1
Sand Pit 1
Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.