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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Bell County, Texas

Bell County, Texas has 212 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1958–1995. MSHA's register carries 37 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Bell 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)
212
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
37
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits21 quadrangle maps, published 1958–1995 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
    31 14.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    181 85.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned37 on register
  1. Amity Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wolff Construction, LP · MSHA ID 4105351
    Abandoned
  2. APACHE STONE, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apache Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4103906
    Abandoned
  3. Bandas-Burton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bandas Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4103632
    Abandoned
  4. BELL COUNTY PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bell County Road & Bridge · MSHA ID 4103967
    Abandoned
  5. Belton Plant 1154
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arcosa Aggregates, Inc · MSHA ID 4101043
    Abandoned
  6. Calibre Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Calibre Stone · MSHA ID 4105656
    Abandoned
  7. Culp Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Culp Stone Company · MSHA ID 4103405
    Abandoned
  8. Curry Plant 1676
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arcosa Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 4105307
    Abandoned
  9. DA 4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Victory Rock Texas LLC. · MSHA ID 4105536
    Abandoned
  10. FRANKLIN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Franklin Industrial Minerals · MSHA ID 4102248
    Abandoned
  11. Franklin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Odell Geer Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103811
    Abandoned
  12. Geer Washer And Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Geer Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4101828
    Abandoned
  13. GIBBS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Odell Geer Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103878
    Abandoned
  14. GOODE RANCH PIT II
    Surface metal/non-metal · All Tex/Lynn Pierce Stone · MSHA ID 4103968
    Abandoned
  15. Highway 36 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shallow Ford Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 4104500
    Abandoned
  16. Killeen Washer Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cen-Tex Ready-Mix Concrete Company Inc · MSHA ID 4101817
    Abandoned
  17. LANGENEGGER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4104293
    Abandoned
  18. MELTON RANCH
    Surface metal/non-metal · Killeen Sand & Gravel Ltd · MSHA ID 4103802
    Abandoned
  19. Miller Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Odell Geer Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4102386
    Abandoned
  20. Miller Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103803
    Abandoned
  21. Nieto Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nieto Stone · MSHA ID 4104671
    Abandoned
  22. Norton Ready Mix Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norton Ready Mix Company · MSHA ID 4102306
    Abandoned
  23. Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bandas Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4102766
    Abandoned
  24. POPE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4104253
    Abandoned
  25. Prairie Dell
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Texas Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104470
    Abandoned
  26. Prairie Dell Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Odell Geer Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103020
    Abandoned
  27. REED PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4104000
    Abandoned
  28. Romo Salado
    Surface metal/non-metal · Romo Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4104994
    Abandoned
  29. SCHNEIDER PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · R T Schneider Construction Company Ltd · MSHA ID 4104275
    Abandoned
  30. SHALLOW FORD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4101142
    Abandoned
  31. SIMPSONS PIT-Florence
    Surface metal/non-metal · Simpson Stone Company · MSHA ID 4104564
    Abandoned
  32. Stone's Unlimited Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stone's Unlimited Inc. · MSHA ID 4104324
    Abandoned
  33. SUNSHINE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunshine Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4103606
    Abandoned
  34. TYLER FARMS, INC. PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tyler Farms Inc · MSHA ID 4104161
    Abandoned
  35. UTLEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shallow Ford Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103964
    Abandoned
  36. Victory rock USA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Victory rock USA · MSHA ID 4105599
    Abandoned
  37. Washer #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Odell Geer Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103008
    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
Gravel Pit 92
Gravel Pit 56
Disturbed Surface 30
Quarry 17
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Borrow Pit 6
Quarry 1
Open Pit 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.