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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Fayette County, Texas

Fayette County, Texas has 230 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1957–1989. MSHA's register carries 31 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Fayette 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)
230
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
31
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits19 quadrangle maps, published 1957–1989 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
    53 23.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    177 77.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned31 on register
  1. Baca Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holcim (US), Inc · MSHA ID 4102818
    Abandoned
  2. BILL BRASHIER EXCVT.CO.CORP.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Brashier Excavating Company · MSHA ID 4103573
    Abandoned
  3. Bobby Yancey Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bobby Yancey Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4103007
    Abandoned
  4. BORDER MINES INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Border Mines Inc · MSHA ID 4103311
    Abandoned
  5. Brazos Construction Materials-Plant E
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brazos Construction Materials · MSHA ID 4102903
    Abandoned
  6. Brazos Construction Materials-Plant F
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brazos Construction Materials · MSHA ID 4102902
    Abandoned
  7. Construction Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Con-Agg Express Inc · MSHA ID 4102795
    Abandoned
  8. Construction Materials Sand&Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Construction Materials · MSHA ID 4102898
    Abandoned
  9. Cummins Creek Mine
    Surface coal · Lower Colorado River Authority · MSHA ID 4103227
    Abandoned
  10. Ellinger Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seven Day Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 4102918
    Abandoned
  11. ELLINGER SAND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Aggregates, LLC. · MSHA ID 4103628
    Abandoned
  12. HAJOVSKY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · POINTRAC INC · MSHA ID 4104158
    Abandoned
  13. Holman Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Parker Brothers & Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103170
    Abandoned
  14. La Grange Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Grange Materials LLC · MSHA ID 4104689
    Abandoned
  15. La Grange Mining
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Grange Mining Company · MSHA ID 4102900
    Abandoned
  16. LaGrange Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gravel Products Inc · MSHA ID 4104031
    Abandoned
  17. LUCHERKS GRAVEL CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lucherk'S Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4104125
    Abandoned
  18. M K Services Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · M K Services · MSHA ID 4104644
    Abandoned
  19. NORMAN R JASEK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jasek Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4103788
    Abandoned
  20. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · D's Gravel · MSHA ID 4104291
    Abandoned
  21. Pit 4 LaGrange
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heartland Quarries, LLC · MSHA ID 4105734
    Abandoned
  22. Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bridge Valley Gravel · MSHA ID 4103499
    Abandoned
  23. Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Colorado River Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4103228
    Abandoned
  24. Polasek Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Polasek Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4102899
    Abandoned
  25. River Valley Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · River Valley Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 4104198
    Abandoned
  26. Scott Kleimann Services
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scott Kleimann Services · MSHA ID 4105577
    Abandoned
  27. Smithville Sand & Gravel, LP (Portable)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smithville Sand & Gravel, LP · MSHA ID 4104614
    Abandoned
  28. Stratasource Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stratasource Inc · MSHA ID 4102917
    Abandoned
  29. Texas Aggregates - LaGrange Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Aggregates LP · MSHA ID 4101778
    Abandoned
  30. Vasek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · POINTRAC 2 INC · MSHA ID 4105631
    Abandoned
  31. West Point Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Rock & Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 4103664
    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 111
Gravel Pit 56
Strip Mine 28
Disturbed Surface 20
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Clay Pit 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Borrow Pit 1
Clay 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.