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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Galveston County, Texas

Galveston County, Texas has 29 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1995. MSHA's register carries 35 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Galveston 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)
29
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
35
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits8 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1995 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
    11 37.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    18 62.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned35 on register
  1. Abel Sand Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Abel Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103364
    Abandoned
  2. Arcadia Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arcadia Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4102526
    Abandoned
  3. Baulch Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baulch Sand Pit · MSHA ID 4102323
    Abandoned
  4. Bay Area Materials Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bay Area Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103735
    Abandoned
  5. BITTNER SAND INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bittner Sand Inc · MSHA ID 4103769
    Abandoned
  6. Bradley & Sons
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bradley & Sons · MSHA ID 4103657
    Abandoned
  7. Crump Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand & Fill Company · MSHA ID 4102763
    Abandoned
  8. De Leon Sand & Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Leon Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4104178
    Abandoned
  9. DELEON SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Leon Sand Pit · MSHA ID 4103996
    Abandoned
  10. F & S Enterprises
    Surface metal/non-metal · F & S Enterprises · MSHA ID 4103363
    Abandoned
  11. Friendswood Sandpit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sprint Sand & Clay L P · MSHA ID 4104186
    Abandoned
  12. G C S M #10
    Facility metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Stabilized Materials · MSHA ID 4104134
    Abandoned
  13. Galveston GBT Barite Grinding Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · M-I Swaco-A Schlumberger Company · MSHA ID 4104675
    Abandoned
  14. Galveston Grinding Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · M-I L L C · MSHA ID 4102515
    Abandoned
  15. Galveston Grinding Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Milpark Drilling Fluids · MSHA ID 4102760
    Abandoned
  16. Galveston Grinding Plant Ii
    Facility metal/non-metal · Milchem Inc · MSHA ID 4102993
    Abandoned
  17. GALVESTON SALES YARD
    Facility metal/non-metal · Vulcan/Ica Distribution Company · MSHA ID 4103851
    Abandoned
  18. Gcsm #9
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Stabilized Materials · MSHA ID 4104091
    Abandoned
  19. GENOA MINING, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · LaMarr Trucking Inc. · MSHA ID 4103835
    Abandoned
  20. Gulf Coast Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Sand Products · MSHA ID 4103736
    Abandoned
  21. Hardy Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Travis Hardy Sand Company · MSHA ID 4102312
    Abandoned
  22. Hitchcock Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bayshore Resources · MSHA ID 4103273
    Abandoned
  23. KELLY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kelly Bradley Inc · MSHA ID 4103725
    Abandoned
  24. League Davis Clay Property
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ideal Basic Industries-Cement Division · MSHA ID 4101220
    Abandoned
  25. Mabe'S Hauling
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mabe'S Hauling · MSHA ID 4104305
    Abandoned
  26. Moody Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moody Sand Pit · MSHA ID 4103173
    Abandoned
  27. Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand Pit · MSHA ID 4103274
    Abandoned
  28. Sand Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · E & B Sand & Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4102985
    Abandoned
  29. Santa Fe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Santa Fe Sand Company · MSHA ID 4102527
    Abandoned
  30. Stutzman Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stutzman Sand · MSHA ID 4103362
    Abandoned
  31. Stutzman Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stutzman Sand · MSHA ID 4103724
    Abandoned
  32. Sullivan Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sullivan Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4102325
    Abandoned
  33. Tex-Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tex-Stone · MSHA ID 4102748
    Abandoned
  34. TEXAS INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas International Terminals · MSHA ID 4103687
    Abandoned
  35. TITAN S & G PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Painter & Associates Inc · MSHA ID 4103915
    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 9
Sand Pit 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 5
Gravel Pit 4
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
Gravel Pit 1
Sand 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.