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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Deschutes County, Oregon

Deschutes County, Oregon has 293 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1959–1988, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 11 prospect pits; 3 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 66 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Deschutes 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)
293
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
66
3 features carry a name11 prospect pits54 quadrangle maps, published 1959–1988 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 0.3%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    11 3.8%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    36 12.3%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    245 83.6%
Named features on the maps3 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Pumice Mine Quarry - Pumice
Sabol Butte Cinder Pit Cinder Pit
Skylight Cave Adit

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 Abandoned66 on register
  1. # 2 CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Deschutes Ready-Mix Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3503391
    Abandoned
  2. #1 CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Deschutes Ready-Mix Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3503008
    Abandoned
  3. #2 SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Deschutes Ready Mix Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3503421
    Abandoned
  4. 7 Peaks Paving
    Surface metal/non-metal · 7 Peaks Paving LLC · MSHA ID 3503566
    Abandoned
  5. Airport Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · J D Dutton Inc · MSHA ID 3502593
    Abandoned
  6. B.C. PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3503533
    Abandoned
  7. Barber #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Del Barber Excavation, Inc. · MSHA ID 3503547
    Abandoned
  8. BEND AGGREGATE PIT & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bend Aggregate & Paving Company · MSHA ID 3500459
    Abandoned
  9. BORS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Crushing · MSHA ID 3503516
    Abandoned
  10. Cake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R L Coats · MSHA ID 3502592
    Abandoned
  11. Cake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shevlin Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3502931
    Abandoned
  12. Camp Abbot Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Process Inc · MSHA ID 3502437
    Abandoned
  13. CENTRAL OREGON PORTABLE #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River Corporation-Northwest · MSHA ID 3503581
    Abandoned
  14. CENTRAL OREGON PUMICE COMPANY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Oregon Pumice Company · MSHA ID 3500323
    Abandoned
  15. CINDER BUTTE ROCK PRO., LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cinder Butte Rock Products Llc · MSHA ID 3503485
    Abandoned
  16. CLINE BUTTE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cline Butte Rock Products · MSHA ID 3503486
    Abandoned
  17. COWBOY CRUSHING
    Surface metal/non-metal · RICKMAN EXCAVATING · MSHA ID 3503693
    Abandoned
  18. Crusher #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hap Taylor & Sons · MSHA ID 3503573
    Abandoned
  19. Deschutes Junction Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid Oregon Oil Company · MSHA ID 3502650
    Abandoned
  20. DESCHUTES PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cascade Pumice Inc · MSHA ID 3503302
    Abandoned
  21. Dicalite Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid Oregon Ready Mix · MSHA ID 3502833
    Abandoned
  22. Dunn Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crooked River Construction · MSHA ID 3503089
    Abandoned
  23. Elliott Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dick Elliott Construction · MSHA ID 3503366
    Abandoned
  24. Frederick Butte Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid Oregon Crushing Company · MSHA ID 3502937
    Abandoned
  25. Fryrear Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid Oregon Crushing Company · MSHA ID 3502597
    Abandoned
  26. Green Ridge Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Continental Crushing & Leasing · MSHA ID 3502958
    Abandoned
  27. Hill Top Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bend Aggregate & Paving Company · MSHA ID 3502599
    Abandoned
  28. Horse Butte Site Fl
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3502578
    Abandoned
  29. Johnson Rd Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cascade Pumice Inc · MSHA ID 3503499
    Abandoned
  30. KEETON-KING CONSTRUCTION INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keeton-King Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3503442
    Abandoned
  31. LAVA BUTTE CINDER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pieratt Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3503400
    Abandoned
  32. LONE PINE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bend Aggregate & Paving Company · MSHA ID 3501285
    Abandoned
  33. Long Butte Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · State Of Oregon Hwy Dept · MSHA ID 3502649
    Abandoned
  34. McFarlane Portable Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kelly McFarlane Contracting · MSHA ID 3503569
    Abandoned
  35. Miller Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Continental Crushing & Leasing · MSHA ID 3502930
    Abandoned
  36. MILLER TREE FARM MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Oregon Pumice Company · MSHA ID 3503300
    Abandoned
  37. Moe Cinder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hap Taylor Inc · MSHA ID 3502573
    Abandoned
  38. Moore Cinder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E A (Gene) Moore · MSHA ID 3502534
    Abandoned
  39. Oregon Department of Transportation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oregon Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3503490
    Abandoned
  40. Pioneer Crusher No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · E A (Gene) Moore · MSHA ID 3503286
    Abandoned
  41. Plant #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · 4 R Equipment LLC · MSHA ID 3503575
    Abandoned
  42. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & E Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 3503947
    Abandoned
  43. Portable 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & E Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 3503948
    Abandoned
  44. Portable 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & E Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3503955
    Abandoned
  45. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hap Taylor & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3503520
    Abandoned
  46. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ocon Inc/Recycle Aggregate · MSHA ID 3503480
    Abandoned
  47. PORTABLE CRUSHER 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · TAYLOR NORTHWEST LLC · MSHA ID 3503932
    Abandoned
  48. Portable One
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bar Seven A Companies · MSHA ID 3503640
    Abandoned
  49. Portable Two
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bar Seven A Companies · MSHA ID 3503641
    Abandoned
  50. Powell Butte Rock Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Powell Butte Rock Crushing · MSHA ID 3503669
    Abandoned
  51. RC007
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jack Robinson & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3503474
    Abandoned
  52. Red Cloud Portable Crusher # 2 P-32
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Cloud Specialty Contractors · MSHA ID 3503530
    Abandoned
  53. Red Cloud Portable Crusher # 2 P-32
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Cloud Specialty Contractors · MSHA ID 3503574
    Abandoned
  54. Rock Sand Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mark Latham Excavation Inc. · MSHA ID 3503716
    Abandoned
  55. S. A. Moore LLC Lower Bridge
    Surface metal/non-metal · S. A. Moore LLC · MSHA ID 3503487
    Abandoned
  56. Sam'S Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sam'S Contracting · MSHA ID 3503407
    Abandoned
  57. Section 12 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paul Hurns Construction Company · MSHA ID 3502535
    Abandoned
  58. Shalex Cinder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Oregon Pumice Company · MSHA ID 3502594
    Abandoned
  59. Sheep Creek Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ferry Creek Rock & Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3501322
    Abandoned
  60. SISTERS/SECTION III SITE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hap Taylor & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3503477
    Abandoned
  61. Slayton Road Cinder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willard H Cyrus · MSHA ID 3502590
    Abandoned
  62. South Walker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Process Inc · MSHA ID 3502989
    Abandoned
  63. SP 10
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hooker Creek Companies, LLC · MSHA ID 3503541
    Abandoned
  64. SP-3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hooker Creek Sand & Gravel Llc · MSHA ID 3503514
    Abandoned
  65. TUMALO
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hap Taylor & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3503476
    Abandoned
  66. TUMALO MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cascade Pumice Inc · MSHA ID 3500324
    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
Cinder Pit 116
Gravel Pit 44
Borrow Pit 33
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 27
Disturbed Surface - Pit 22
Quarry 13
Prospect Pit 11
Disturbed Surface 8
Borrow Pit 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Cinder Pit 3
Gravel Pit 2
Quarry - Pumice 1
Open Pit Mine 1
Strip Mine 1
Adit 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.