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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Eastland County, Texas

Eastland County, Texas has 122 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1966–1987. MSHA's register carries 17 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Eastland 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)
122
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
17
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1966–1987 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
    9 7.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    113 92.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned17 on register
  1. Cpx-2 (Portable Crusher)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jagoe-Public Company · MSHA ID 4103076
    Abandoned
  2. DAVIS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ceramitex Inc · MSHA ID 4103613
    Abandoned
  3. EASTLAND CO PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ingram Enterprises L.P. · MSHA ID 4103600
    Abandoned
  4. Featherlite Building Products Corporatio
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 4103615
    Abandoned
  5. Featherlite Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Featherlite Building Products Corp · MSHA ID 4100267
    Abandoned
  6. FINLEY PIT & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · J J Finley Construction Company · MSHA ID 4102609
    Abandoned
  7. Gallagher Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Architectural Clay Inc · MSHA ID 4100260
    Abandoned
  8. Hagaman Ranch
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitt Hagaman · MSHA ID 4103624
    Abandoned
  9. MCPHAIL EASTLAND COUNTY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Breckenridge Ready-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4104302
    Abandoned
  10. Portable Plant Ii
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Materials Company · MSHA ID 4103539
    Abandoned
  11. QJ 341 Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · SBM Earthmoving · MSHA ID 4105284
    Abandoned
  12. QJ 341 Crusher #1 0648
    Surface metal/non-metal · SBM Earthmoving & Construction · MSHA ID 4105282
    Abandoned
  13. QJ 341 Crusher #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · SBM Earthmoving · MSHA ID 4105285
    Abandoned
  14. Ranger
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ultra Fine Silica, LP · MSHA ID 4105253
    Abandoned
  15. Ranger Clay Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ranger Clay Co Inc · MSHA ID 4102528
    Abandoned
  16. Ranger Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, L.P. · MSHA ID 4104565
    Abandoned
  17. XA 400 Jaw Crusher #2 Rental
    Surface metal/non-metal · SBM Earthmoving · MSHA ID 4105283
    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 55
Gravel Pit 33
Clay Pit 14
Disturbed Surface 9
Quarry 7
Clay Pit 2
Borrow Pit 1
Quarry 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.