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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Fort Bend County, Texas

Fort Bend County, Texas has 60 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1995. 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 Fort Bend 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)
60
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
22
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1995 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
    18 30.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    36 60.0%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    6 10.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned22 on register
  1. Blue Ridge Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · United Salt Corp · MSHA ID 4100949
    Abandoned
  2. BRAZOS RIVER PLT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Stabilized Materials · MSHA ID 4103809
    Abandoned
  3. CLODINE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI Operations LP · MSHA ID 4100303
    Abandoned
  4. Csb Asphalt Company Incorporated
    Facility metal/non-metal · Csb Asphalt Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103572
    Abandoned
  5. CSB Materials Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · C S B Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4104427
    Abandoned
  6. CSB Materials Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · CSB Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 4104448
    Abandoned
  7. Doty Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Doty Sand Pit Inc · MSHA ID 4102244
    Abandoned
  8. Dudley'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Le Blanc'S Concrete & Mortar Sand Company · MSHA ID 4102775
    Abandoned
  9. Freeway Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Freeway Sand Inc · MSHA ID 4103459
    Abandoned
  10. GCSM #3
    Facility metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Stabilized Materials · MSHA ID 4103846
    Abandoned
  11. KATY GASTON SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sprint Sand & Clay L P · MSHA ID 4104213
    Abandoned
  12. MADDEN RD SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sprint Sand & Clay L P · MSHA ID 4102725
    Abandoned
  13. Pugmill #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jones G Finke Inc · MSHA ID 4102245
    Abandoned
  14. River Pit
    Facility metal/non-metal · Miller Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 4102329
    Abandoned
  15. San Jacinto Excavation Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · San Jacinto Excavation Corp · MSHA ID 4103753
    Abandoned
  16. Sand Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand & Equipment · MSHA ID 4102986
    Abandoned
  17. Sand Supply #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Concrete & Materials LLC · MSHA ID 4103903
    Abandoned
  18. Sand Supply #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Concrete & Materials LP Sand Supply Div · MSHA ID 4104298
    Abandoned
  19. SAND SUPPLY INC #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lehigh Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 4103185
    Abandoned
  20. SAND SUPPLY INC #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lehigh Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 4103189
    Abandoned
  21. Sugarland Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W R Flora & Sons · MSHA ID 4102979
    Abandoned
  22. Wessendorf Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lone Star Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4102927
    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
Disturbed Surface 12
Gravel Pit 11
Sand Pit 8
Gravel Pit 7
Disturbed Surface - Pit 6
Evaporation Pond 6
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 5
Sand Pit 2
Clay Pit 2
Clay Pit 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.