Abandoned mines in Marion County, Tennessee

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   166 34.7%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   251 52.4%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   9 1.9%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   22 4.6%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   1 0.2%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   30 6.3%

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. #1 Mine

   Underground coal · Wynne Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000717
   Abandoned 1971-10-19
2. #2 Mine Ug

   Underground coal · Blue Springs Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000364
   Abandoned 1972-09-27
3. #52

   Underground coal · Watts Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4003005
   Abandoned and Sealed 1991-04-09
4. 16-1

   Underground coal · G & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002728
   Abandoned and Sealed 1983-08-01
5. Aetna No 1

   Underground coal · Colonel Lawrence Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002706
   Abandoned and Sealed 1996-05-23
6. Area #13

   Surface coal · Big Fork Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002887
   Abandoned 1988-12-20
7. Area No 1 Surface

   Surface coal · Maiden Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002475
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
8. Area No 4 Strip

   Surface coal · Big Fork Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002389
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
9. Area No 5 Strip

   Surface coal · James Earl Nunley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002231
   Abandoned 1977-11-03
10. Bee Branch 17-1

    Underground coal · V & E Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002428
    Abandoned and Sealed 1983-12-14
11. Big Ridge Strip

    Surface coal · Sycamore Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002288
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
12. Bone No 3 Strip

    Surface coal · Bone Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002088
    Abandoned 1981-03-25
13. C Ug Mine

    Underground coal · Buck Layne Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000730
    Abandoned 1980-09-29
14. Cave Cove Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Cave Cove Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4003491
    Abandoned 2026-07-13
15. Clayton Camp Mine

    Underground coal · Clayton Camp Coal Company · MSHA ID 4003061
    Abandoned and Sealed 1992-06-18
16. D & B No 2

    Underground coal · D & B Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4000366
    Abandoned and Sealed 1989-09-29
17. DeLeon Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · DeLeon Stone, LLC · MSHA ID 4003532
    Abandoned 2022-03-18
18. Donald Nunley

    Underground coal · D & B Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002364
    Abandoned and Sealed 1987-12-24
19. Dry Creek

    Surface metal/non-metal · Dry Creek Farms LLC · MSHA ID 4003525
    Abandoned 2021-09-17
20. Dry Creek Farms LLC

    Surface metal/non-metal · Dry Creek Farms LLC · MSHA ID 4003432
    Abandoned 2019-10-21
21. Fiery Gizzard Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Fiery Gizzard Stone, LLC · MSHA ID 4003600
    Abandoned 2025-10-01
22. Flores Quarry #4

    Surface metal/non-metal · Flores Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4003578
    Abandoned 2023-10-01
23. Flores Stone quarry#5

    Surface metal/non-metal · Flores Stone LLC. · MSHA ID 4003590
    Abandoned 2023-09-23
24. G C No 10 Mine

    Underground coal · John Stephenson Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000570
    Abandoned 1971-06-28
25. G C No 3 Ug

    Underground coal · H & L Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000378
    Abandoned 1971-06-28
26. G C No 4 Ug

    Underground coal · Gravitt Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000377
    Abandoned 1971-06-28
27. Grays Creek Fieldstone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Seven Springs Stone · MSHA ID 4003558
    Abandoned 2024-03-06
28. Greentown Operation

    Surface metal/non-metal · Kelly Grimes Stone · MSHA ID 4003573
    Abandoned 2025-09-19
29. Jasper Highlands Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Thunder Air Inc. · MSHA ID 4003460
    Abandoned 2024-09-19
30. Jasper Job

    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Brothers · MSHA ID 4002601
    Abandoned 1980-05-08
31. JASPER SAND PLANT

    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · MSHA ID 4002985
    Abandoned 2002-11-13
32. Marion No 1

    Surface coal · A I M E E · MSHA ID 4002464
    Abandoned 1979-12-07
33. Marion Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Materials Company · MSHA ID 4000113
    Abandoned 1989-12-28
34. Mayfield Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Melco-Greer Inc · MSHA ID 4002935
    Abandoned 1990-01-23
35. Mine 1-2 Barnwell Coal Co

    Surface coal · Barnwell Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002413
    Abandoned 1986-07-14
36. Mine No 21

    Underground coal · Grundy Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000524
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-09-30
37. Mine No 35

    Underground coal · Lad Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002839
    Abandoned and Sealed 1993-04-02
38. Morganville Mtn Strip Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Grundy Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002810
    Abandoned 1983-06-30
39. Morganville Strip Mine No 4

    Surface coal · Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002984
    Abandoned 1997-11-04
40. Murphy Strip

    Surface coal · Murphy Mountain Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002348
    Abandoned 1980-06-02
41. No 1

    Underground coal · Bill Byers & Clint Oliver · MSHA ID 4000368
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-09-30
42. No 1

    Underground coal · Kilgore Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001807
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
43. No 1

    Underground coal · Hawkeye Elkhorn Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001829
    Abandoned 1980-09-11
44. No 1

    Surface coal · Caldwell Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002533
    Abandoned 1981-02-26
45. No 1

    Underground coal · Eagle Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002556
    Abandoned 1980-09-24
46. No 1

    Underground coal · R & M Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002657
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-09-25
47. No 1

    Underground coal · Bolton Point Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002663
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-03-27
48. No 1

    Underground coal · Lilly Rose Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002695
    Abandoned and Sealed 1996-05-23
49. No 1

    Underground coal · J B C Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002700
    Abandoned and Sealed 1996-05-23
50. No 1

    Underground coal · Donnie Mabe Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002743
    Abandoned and Sealed 1996-05-23
51. No 1

    Underground coal · Edwin Campbell Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002923
    Abandoned and Sealed 1986-06-11
52. No 1 Dock

    Facility coal · Serodino Inc · MSHA ID 4002388
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
53. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Gravitt Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000719
    Abandoned 1974-05-21
54. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Earl Patton Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001602
    Abandoned 1978-07-27
55. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · C & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001677
    Abandoned 1980-09-29
56. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Darwin Shipley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001694
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
57. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Pocket Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001726
    Abandoned 1977-04-14
58. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Mc Hone Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001730
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
59. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · M & B Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001791
    Abandoned 1980-09-29
60. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Whiteside Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001806
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
61. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Black Diamond Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002230
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-10-29
62. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · A C Wells Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002284
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
63. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Wade Kilgore Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002285
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
64. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Meeks & Campbell Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002683
    Abandoned 1980-09-23
65. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Gaines Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002686
    Abandoned 1978-08-23
66. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Gaines Coal Company · MSHA ID 4099992
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
67. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Meeks & Campbell Coal Company · MSHA ID 4099993
    Abandoned 1980-09-23
68. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · James Earl Nunley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001769
    Abandoned 1977-06-23
69. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Alabama-Georgia Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001931
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
70. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Big Fork Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001974
    Abandoned 1977-11-03
71. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Gary L Little & Associates · MSHA ID 4001983
    Abandoned 1977-07-05
72. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Conrad Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002063
    Abandoned 1977-07-05
73. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Jocol Inc · MSHA ID 4002103
    Abandoned 1977-08-09
74. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Jackson Mining Company · MSHA ID 4002122
    Abandoned 1977-06-23
75. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Big Ridge Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002194
    Abandoned 1977-09-20
76. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Cole & Watts Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002387
    Abandoned 1981-03-25
77. No 1 Underground Mine

    Underground coal · M & W Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002844
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-12-05
78. No 1-A Mine

    Underground coal · K & G Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000571
    Abandoned 1971-01-26
79. No 11 Mine

    Underground coal · James Earl Nunley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000404
    Abandoned 1972-09-27
80. No 18

    Underground coal · Virginia Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000405
    Abandoned and Sealed 1982-02-04
81. No 19 Ug Mine

    Underground coal · Chester Meeks Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000392
    Abandoned 1976-11-11
82. No 2

    Underground coal · Dunwoody Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002863
    Abandoned and Sealed 1987-09-29
83. No 2 Mine

    Underground coal · Lynn Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000572
    Abandoned 1971-01-26
84. No 2 Mine

    Underground coal · C & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002225
    Abandoned 1980-09-29
85. No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · Petroleum Engineering Services Inc · MSHA ID 4002033
    Abandoned 1978-05-23
86. No 26

    Underground coal · Watts Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4003024
    Abandoned and Sealed 1993-04-30
87. No 26 Mine

    Underground coal · Shipley Coal Co · MSHA ID 4001613
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
88. No 29

    Underground coal · Marion Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001582
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-11-30
89. No 3 Strip

    Surface coal · Allen Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002053
    Abandoned 1978-05-08
90. No 32

    Underground coal · Double B Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002666
    Abandoned and Sealed 1996-05-23
91. No 33

    Underground coal · S & W Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002704
    Abandoned and Sealed 1992-07-27
92. No 36 Ug

    Underground coal · Mary Lee Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000390
    Abandoned 1973-01-24
93. No 4

    Underground coal · Lilly Rose Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002203
    Abandoned and Sealed 1996-05-23
94. No 44

    Underground coal · Saylors Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002770
    Abandoned and Sealed 1991-08-20
95. No 5

    Underground coal · M & M Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000608
    Abandoned 1980-09-29
96. No 50

    Underground coal · Wade Kilgore Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002691
    Abandoned and Sealed 1996-05-23
97. No 6 Strip

    Surface coal · Paul Cole Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002037
    Abandoned 1977-06-23
98. No 62

    Underground coal · New Hope Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4002983
    Abandoned and Sealed 1992-09-18
99. No 63 Ug

    Underground coal · Gob Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000376
    Abandoned 1971-06-28
100. No 9 Strip Mine

     Surface coal · Russell Mining Company · MSHA ID 4000831
     Abandoned 1979-10-01
101. Northwest S M No 2

     Surface coal · Northwest Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002326
     Abandoned 1979-10-01
102. Oakhill No 8

     Underground coal · Oakhill Coal Company · MSHA ID 4000395
     Abandoned 1980-09-29
103. Old Tram Mine

     Underground coal · Bradley Mount Jr Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002977
     Abandoned and Sealed 1988-03-07
104. Orme Mine No 1

     Underground coal · Blue Ridge Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002489
     Abandoned 1980-05-01
105. Orme Mt Mine

     Surface metal/non-metal · Antonio Lugo Tristan · MSHA ID 4003489
     Abandoned 2020-09-29
106. Pine Quarry

     Surface metal/non-metal · Montes Stone Products, LLC · MSHA ID 4003436
     Abandoned 2017-07-26
107. Pocket Rd Mine

     Surface metal/non-metal · Real Stone Veneers of TN LLC · MSHA ID 4003493
     Abandoned 2024-02-29
108. Richard City Quarry

     Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4000077
     Abandoned 2020-02-28
109. Richard City Underground/Surface

     Underground metal/non-metal · Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · MSHA ID 4003132
     Abandoned 2012-01-06
110. River Dock

     Facility coal · Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company · MSHA ID 4003166
     Abandoned 2017-09-12
111. Round Mountain Mining Co Inc

     Surface coal · Round Mountain Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4003086
     Abandoned 1998-08-27
112. SOUTH PITTSBURG PLANT

     Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · MSHA ID 4002233
     Abandoned 2003-05-08
113. South Pittsburg Stone

     Surface metal/non-metal · South Pittsburg Stone · MSHA ID 4003486
     Abandoned 2021-10-01
114. South Pittsburg Stone #2

     Surface metal/non-metal · South Pittsburg Stone · MSHA ID 4003591
     Abandoned 2024-03-07
115. Surface

     Surface coal · James Earl Nunley Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002678
     Abandoned 1978-09-29
116. Tccc No 45

     Underground coal · Thomas Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002840
     Abandoned and Sealed 1988-05-02
117. Ten-Al #4 Mine

     Underground coal · Ten-Al Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002514
     Abandoned 1980-09-15
118. Ten-Al No 3 Mine

     Underground coal · Ten-Al Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000657
     Abandoned 1980-09-15
119. Tenn - Al 2 Mine

     Underground coal · Ten-Al Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002422
     Abandoned 1980-09-15
120. Thomas And Associates

     Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas & Associates · MSHA ID 4002518
     Abandoned 1979-11-13
121. Weeks Quarry

     Surface metal/non-metal · United Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4003434
     Abandoned 2014-05-30
122. Whitwell Yard Mine

     Facility metal/non-metal · Real Stone Veneers of Tennessee · MSHA ID 4003499
     Abandoned 2019-01-15

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
• Maury County 382
• Anderson County 360
• Cumberland County 349
• Morgan County 348
• Hamilton County 277
• Sequatchie County 168
• Shelby County 160
• Grundy County 149
• 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.