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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Columbia County, Oregon

Columbia County, Oregon has 109 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1990, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 1 prospect pits; 2 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 40 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Columbia 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)
109
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
40
2 features carry a name1 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1990 0 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
    1 0.9%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    1 0.9%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    8 7.3%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    99 90.8%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Hawkins Pit Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated
Oak Ranch Pit Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned40 on register
  1. Archibald Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Longview Fibre Company · MSHA ID 3502611
    Abandoned
  2. Chappell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Deane S Chappell Rock & Construction Company · MSHA ID 3502489
    Abandoned
  3. Clatskanie Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Parks & Palm Logging Company · MSHA ID 3500856
    Abandoned
  4. Clatskanie Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paul Zimmerly Rock Products · MSHA ID 3502874
    Abandoned
  5. CLATSKANIE ROCK PRODUCTS, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clatskanie Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 3503410
    Abandoned
  6. COLUMBIA ROAD & DRIVEWAY, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Road & Driveway Inc · MSHA ID 3502481
    Abandoned
  7. Deal Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pete Matiaco Company · MSHA ID 3502651
    Abandoned
  8. Deer Island Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Les Darr Trucking Company · MSHA ID 3503004
    Abandoned
  9. DEER ISLAND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morse Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3502885
    Abandoned
  10. Dennis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grant I Sharp Crushing · MSHA ID 3502983
    Abandoned
  11. Goble Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kerr Contractors, Inc. · MSHA ID 3503545
    Abandoned
  12. GOBLE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Cascade Resources Inc · MSHA ID 3500430
    Abandoned
  13. Graham Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kynsi & Lammi Company · MSHA ID 3502583
    Abandoned
  14. GRAHAM QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kynsi Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3503313
    Abandoned
  15. Hall Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Les Brady · MSHA ID 3502482
    Abandoned
  16. HANKEY SURFACE MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · St Helens Rock Company · MSHA ID 3503347
    Abandoned
  17. LAMMI PIT & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lammi Sand & Rock Products · MSHA ID 3503117
    Abandoned
  18. Lost Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia West Materials & Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 3502584
    Abandoned
  19. NICKOLAI QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westwater Group Inc · MSHA ID 3503482
    Abandoned
  20. Nueman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Nueman · MSHA ID 3501113
    Abandoned
  21. Oak Ranch Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oregon Department of Transportation · MSHA ID 3503627
    Abandoned
  22. Oak Ranch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Clean Logging & Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3501965
    Abandoned
  23. Oak Ranch Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fossil Rock Inc · MSHA ID 3501964
    Abandoned
  24. OAK RANCH QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · HEILMANN LAND SERVICES OF OREGON · MSHA ID 3503646
    Abandoned
  25. PORTABLE # 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Cascade Resources Inc · MSHA ID 3503511
    Abandoned
  26. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · D. McCoy, Inc. · MSHA ID 3503842
    Abandoned
  27. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & W Excavation LLC · MSHA ID 3503864
    Abandoned
  28. Portable 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Northwest Recycling Inc · MSHA ID 3503843
    Abandoned
  29. Rainier Quarry And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia West Materials & Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 3500256
    Abandoned
  30. Rainier Rock Products, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rainier Rock Products, LLC · MSHA ID 3503706
    Abandoned
  31. Salvex Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Salvex Inc · MSHA ID 3503319
    Abandoned
  32. Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kynsi Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3503515
    Abandoned
  33. SINGLETON
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rodney W Thompson Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3503497
    Abandoned
  34. St Helens Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yankton Paving & Rock · MSHA ID 3500432
    Abandoned
  35. TFT INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · TFT INC · MSHA ID 3503726
    Abandoned
  36. Tide Creek Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia County Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 3500798
    Abandoned
  37. Upper Page Creek
    Surface metal/non-metal · Evenson Logging Company · MSHA ID 3503578
    Abandoned
  38. Warren Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Creek Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3500542
    Abandoned
  39. WATTERS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morse Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3500138
    Abandoned
  40. Wild Rose Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rick Franklin Corporation · MSHA ID 3503536
    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
Quarry 45
Borrow Pit 14
Borrow Pit 12
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Gravel Pit 8
Quarry 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Quarry - Rock 3
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
Disturbed Surface 1
Adit 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Gravel Pit 1
Prospect 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.