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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Tillamook County, Oregon

Tillamook County, Oregon has 186 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1937–1986; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 45 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Tillamook 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)
186
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
45
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits32 quadrangle maps, published 1937–1986 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
    3 1.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    183 98.4%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Houck Quarry Quarry

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 Abandoned45 on register
  1. 190 Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 3503065
    Abandoned
  2. 442 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tillamook County Road Department · MSHA ID 3502449
    Abandoned
  3. 443 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tillamook County Road Department · MSHA ID 3502450
    Abandoned
  4. 600 Line
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tillamook Rock · MSHA ID 3503556
    Abandoned
  5. 600 QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tillamook County Public Works · MSHA ID 3502901
    Abandoned
  6. 600 Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 3503063
    Abandoned
  7. Benny Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Benny Taylor · MSHA ID 3502671
    Abandoned
  8. Bodyfelt Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jones Excavating · MSHA ID 3503602
    Abandoned
  9. Christensen Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Christensen Rock LLC · MSHA ID 3503721
    Abandoned
  10. Clear Creek No 1 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Bureau Of Land Management · MSHA ID 3502625
    Abandoned
  11. Clear Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · J C Compton Company · MSHA ID 3502370
    Abandoned
  12. Clear Creek Quarry 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coast A Way Construction Company · MSHA ID 3502801
    Abandoned
  13. Cloverdale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Rhoades · MSHA ID 3502377
    Abandoned
  14. Coastwide Ready-Mix Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coastwide Ready Mix Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3500753
    Abandoned
  15. Cross Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R S Burch Company · MSHA ID 3502459
    Abandoned
  16. Davidson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Bureau Of Land Management · MSHA ID 3502602
    Abandoned
  17. Dovre Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Bureau Of Land Management · MSHA ID 3502560
    Abandoned
  18. East Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oregon State Forestry Department · MSHA ID 3502533
    Abandoned
  19. East Fork Of The Trask Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oregon State Forestry Department · MSHA ID 3502463
    Abandoned
  20. Ekroth Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Coast Rock LLC · MSHA ID 3503603
    Abandoned
  21. Falcon Cove Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bob Mc Ewan Construction Company · MSHA ID 3502443
    Abandoned
  22. Finaley 693
    Surface metal/non-metal · S-C Paving Company · MSHA ID 3503682
    Abandoned
  23. Grassey Flat Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Bureau Of Land Management · MSHA ID 3502624
    Abandoned
  24. Green Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Rhoades Contracting · MSHA ID 3502532
    Abandoned
  25. Hanenkrats Bar
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tillamook County Road Department · MSHA ID 3502690
    Abandoned
  26. Hurliman Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jones Excavating · MSHA ID 3503705
    Abandoned
  27. Jaw 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marsh Creek Corp. · MSHA ID 3503873
    Abandoned
  28. Johnson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dan Reddekopp · MSHA ID 3502538
    Abandoned
  29. Kilchis Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Larson Const. Co. · MSHA ID 3503729
    Abandoned
  30. Kimber Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eugene Kimber Estate · MSHA ID 3503919
    Abandoned
  31. LIGHTHOUSE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · C J Excavating · MSHA ID 3502623
    Abandoned
  32. Meskowin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M E Kauffman Crushing Company · MSHA ID 3502689
    Abandoned
  33. Miami Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clair D Hixson Construction · MSHA ID 3502664
    Abandoned
  34. North Fork Of The Trask Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oregon State Forestry Department · MSHA ID 3502470
    Abandoned
  35. North Fork Trask Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tillamook County Road Department · MSHA ID 3500969
    Abandoned
  36. Paraguay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Three Way Portable Crushing · MSHA ID 3502982
    Abandoned
  37. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · D.K. Quarries · MSHA ID 3502441
    Abandoned
  38. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri Agg Inc. · MSHA ID 3500025
    Abandoned
  39. Portable Crusher #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Braxling & Braxling, Inc. · MSHA ID 3503838
    Abandoned
  40. Portable Crusher #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Braxling & Braxling Inc · MSHA ID 3502627
    Abandoned
  41. Short Sands Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 3503062
    Abandoned
  42. Waggerly Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Don Waggerly · MSHA ID 3502561
    Abandoned
  43. Whiskey Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 3503064
    Abandoned
  44. Wildcat Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 3502512
    Abandoned
  45. Winema Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stadeli Pump & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3503061
    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
Borrow Pit 83
Quarry 69
Gravel Pit 16
Gravel Pit 5
Quarry - Rock 4
Quarry 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Borrow Pit 2
Sand 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.