Abandoned mines in Grundy County, Tennessee

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   12 4.4%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   143 52.2%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   3 1.1%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   33 12.0%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   81 29.6%
6. Other

   symbols outside the classes above
   2 0.7%

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.

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. Alvarez Stone #2

   Surface metal/non-metal · Alvarez Stone · MSHA ID 4003594
   Abandoned 2024-12-19
2. Area No 1

   Surface coal · C O G Mining Inc D/B/A Layne Coal Co · MSHA ID 4002587
   Abandoned 1980-09-25
3. Area No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Grundy Acres Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002517
   Abandoned 1980-03-13
4. Area No 7 Strip

   Surface coal · James Earl Nunley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002319
   Abandoned 1978-05-08
5. Blue Bird No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Mountain Creek Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002386
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
6. Bone No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Bone Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002397
   Abandoned 1980-12-12
7. Commando Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Phipps & Sons Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000523
   Abandoned 1972-04-03
8. Daus Mountain Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · Sand Mountain Stone · MSHA ID 4003577
   Abandoned 2023-09-25
9. Flat Branch

   Surface coal · Blount Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001762
   Abandoned 1977-04-14
10. Gruetli No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · Big Fork Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002046
    Abandoned 1978-05-08
11. Jakes Creek Mine

    Underground coal · Tennessee Mining Services LLC · MSHA ID 4003194
    Abandoned and Sealed 2007-02-27
12. Milton Ridge

    Surface coal · Resources Ltd · MSHA ID 4002644
    Abandoned 1983-10-14
13. Mine 4-1

    Underground coal · Gipson Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002758
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-10-31
14. Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Mandel Nunley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002916
    Abandoned 1986-04-21
15. Moon Tipple

    Facility coal · Billy Moon Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002229
    Abandoned 1985-11-26
16. Natural Energy Area No 1

    Surface coal · Natural Energy Company · MSHA ID 4002681
    Abandoned 1983-10-14
17. Newtex No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Newtex Management Corp · MSHA ID 4002607
    Abandoned 1981-08-14
18. Newtex No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · Newtex Management Corp · MSHA ID 4002749
    Abandoned 1984-07-20
19. No 1

    Surface coal · Best Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002188
    Abandoned 1981-11-30
20. No 1

    Underground coal · Crabtree & Sons Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002550
    Abandoned 1980-05-01
21. No 1

    Underground coal · Sanders & Orange Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002933
    Abandoned and Sealed 1986-08-20
22. No 1

    Surface coal · S & M Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4003003
    Abandoned 1989-02-02
23. No 1

    Surface coal · Anderson Construction Company · MSHA ID 4003008
    Abandoned 1989-04-17
24. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Area Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4001696
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
25. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Hurd Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002028
    Abandoned 1978-05-08
26. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Leatherman Inc · MSHA ID 4002072
    Abandoned 1977-02-07
27. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Carl Budweg Construction Company · MSHA ID 4002594
    Abandoned 1980-11-03
28. No 1 Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Hoover Inc · MSHA ID 4001676
    Abandoned 1975-04-28
29. No 1 Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Area Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4001698
    Abandoned 1974-12-31
30. No 1 Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Coffee Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001729
    Abandoned 1976-08-16
31. No 10 Strip

    Surface coal · Russell Company · MSHA ID 4000355
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
32. No 10 Strip

    Surface coal · Russell Mining Company · MSHA ID 4001133
    Abandoned 1978-07-06
33. No 175 Strip

    Surface coal · Mining & Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 4002125
    Abandoned 1977-06-23
34. No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · James Earl Nunley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001689
    Abandoned 1977-06-23
35. No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · Regal Development Corp · MSHA ID 4001709
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
36. No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · Allen Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001818
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
37. No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · A R C Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002530
    Abandoned 1981-06-15
38. No 3 Strip

    Surface coal · Luther Nabors Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002241
    Abandoned 1977-09-13
39. No. 1 Surface Facility

    Facility coal · Tennessee Mining Services LLC · MSHA ID 4003255
    Abandoned 2005-05-25
40. Old Maxie Nunley Mine

    Underground coal · Cox & Nunley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001733
    Abandoned and Sealed 1996-05-23
41. Reid Hill No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Reid Hill Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002463
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
42. Sally Branch Strip

    Surface coal · Russell Company · MSHA ID 4002509
    Abandoned 1981-03-25
43. Strip No 1

    Surface coal · Micuron Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002243
    Abandoned 1978-05-08
44. Strip No 1

    Surface coal · Nationwide Inc · MSHA ID 4002699
    Abandoned 1991-08-14
45. T & T Contractor

    Surface coal · King Solomon Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002915
    Abandoned 1986-10-16
46. T E C Tipple

    Facility coal · Tennessee Energy Complex Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4002244
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
47. The Oliver-Twitty Mine

    Surface coal · Mitchell Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002773
    Abandoned 1983-01-27
48. Wiggins Tipple

    Facility coal · Wiggins Coal & Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4002390
    Abandoned 1987-03-13
49. Woodcock Coal Co Inc Area No 2

    Surface coal · Woodcock Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002534
    Abandoned 1980-11-03

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Campbell County 626
• Scott County 471
• Marion County 409
• Maury County 382
• Anderson County 360
• Cumberland County 349
• Morgan County 348
• Hamilton County 277
• Sequatchie County 168
• Shelby County 160
• Hardin County 142
• Claiborne County 129

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.