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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Maury County, Tennessee

Maury County, Tennessee has 382 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1936–1989, including 11 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 20 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 22 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Maury 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)
382
Mine openings
11
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
20 features carry a name0 prospect pits19 quadrangle maps, published 1936–1989 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
    11 2.9%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    284 74.3%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    1 0.3%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    86 22.5%
Named features on the maps20 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Partially Reclaimed Strip Mine area
Partially Reclaimed Strip Mine area
Partially Reclaimed Strip Mine area
Partially Reclaimed Strip Mine area
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Open Pit Mine
Phosphate Mine Strip Mine area
Phosphate Mine Strip Mine area
Phosphate Mine Strip Mine area
Phosphate Mine Strip Mine area
Phosphate Mine Strip Mine area
Phosphate Mine Strip Mine area
Saltpeter 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 Abandoned22 on register
  1. ANCHOR QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 4002921
    Abandoned
  2. Columbia No 2 Mine And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Rock Products Corp · MSHA ID 4002082
    Abandoned
  3. Columbia Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · MSHA ID 4003280
    Abandoned
  4. Columbia Shop
    Facility metal/non-metal · Crandell Stone · MSHA ID 4000624
    Abandoned
  5. E Graff Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hall & Knox Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002172
    Abandoned
  6. Globe Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Rhone-Poulenc Basic Chemicals Company · MSHA ID 4000629
    Abandoned
  7. Goodwin Washer
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hooker Chemical & Plastics Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002286
    Abandoned
  8. Hall And Knox Central Mining Shop
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hall & Knox Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002797
    Abandoned
  9. Hill Tract
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hall & Knox Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002503
    Abandoned
  10. Maury County Mines
    Surface metal/non-metal · G T Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002175
    Abandoned
  11. Maury County Mines (Godwin)
    Surface metal/non-metal · G T Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000916
    Abandoned
  12. Maury County Operations
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hall & Knox Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002794
    Abandoned
  13. Mobil Thomas Tract
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hall & Knox Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002339
    Abandoned
  14. Monsanto Industrial Chemicals Co Mo
    Facility metal/non-metal · Monsanto Company · MSHA ID 4000903
    Abandoned
  15. Murphy/Haynes Haven
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davis Group Inc · MSHA ID 4000921
    Abandoned
  16. RC2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 4003584
    Abandoned
  17. Saturn Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tenn Excav Co Inc-J Jenkins-Ptnrshp-T Gentry/Jv · MSHA ID 4002943
    Abandoned
  18. Speed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Speed & Associates Inc · MSHA ID 4002911
    Abandoned
  19. Tva Harris Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hall & Knox Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002013
    Abandoned
  20. Washer Mine & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davis Group Inc · MSHA ID 4000920
    Abandoned
  21. West Godwin
    Surface metal/non-metal · G T Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4002779
    Abandoned
  22. Williamsport Washer
    Facility metal/non-metal · G T Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4000885
    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
Strip Mine 228
Tailings - Pond 81
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 27
Disturbed Surface 12
Adit 11
Open Pit Mine 9
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Settling Pond 5
Quarry 1
Strip Mine 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.