Abandoned mines in Overton County, Tennessee

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   18 15.4%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   64 54.7%
3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   10 8.5%
4. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   1 0.9%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   24 20.5%

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. Allons Sand Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Livingston Limestone Company Inc · MSHA ID 4003004
   Abandoned 1995-07-24
2. Catherine Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Willis Stone · MSHA ID 4003205
   Abandoned 2005-08-23
3. Clear Creek No 3 Mine

   Underground coal · Clear Creek Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001687
   Abandoned 1976-11-26
4. Coal Energy #3 &3a

   Surface coal · Coal Energy Inc · MSHA ID 4002740
   Abandoned 1984-08-01
5. Gray's Stone LLC

   Surface metal/non-metal · Gray's Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4003212
   Abandoned 2008-03-11
6. No 1 Surface

   Surface coal · D & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4001830
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
7. No 1 Surface

   Surface coal · Tipparary Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001831
   Abandoned 1976-03-08
8. No 1 Surface

   Surface coal · Poston Coal Company · MSHA ID 4001832
   Abandoned 1978-02-14
9. No 1 Surface

   Surface coal · Cermat Inc · MSHA ID 4002098
   Abandoned 1976-12-30
10. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Page Coal Company · MSHA ID 4002511
    Abandoned 1980-06-11
11. Pelfrey Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Pelfrey Stone · MSHA ID 4003389
    Abandoned 2011-11-15
12. Sand Plant and Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc. · MSHA ID 4002209
    Abandoned 2015-05-21
13. Willis Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Willis Stone · MSHA ID 4003312
    Abandoned 2009-08-19

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
• Grundy County 149
• Hardin County 142

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.