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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Hood County, Texas

Hood County, Texas has 68 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1958–1979. MSHA's register carries 39 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Hood 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)
68
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
39
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1958–1979 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
    1 1.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    67 98.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned39 on register
  1. 3B Stone Supply
    Surface metal/non-metal · 3B Stone Supply · MSHA ID 4105228
    Abandoned
  2. 51 Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, LLC · MSHA ID 4105381
    Abandoned
  3. A&A SAND & STONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & A Sand & Stone · MSHA ID 4104166
    Abandoned
  4. Arnold Stone Products - Tolar Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arnold Stone Products · MSHA ID 4104473
    Abandoned
  5. ARROWHEAD STONE & ROCK, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arrowhead Stone & Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4104171
    Abandoned
  6. Bandy (Private Property)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hernandez Rock · MSHA ID 4104446
    Abandoned
  7. Bedrock Stone Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bedrock Stone Company · MSHA ID 4104491
    Abandoned
  8. BETZEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · W A Betzel · MSHA ID 4104105
    Abandoned
  9. BNG Mine #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Breaking New Ground · MSHA ID 4105723
    Abandoned
  10. Cleburne Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lattimore Materials Corp. · MSHA ID 4104063
    Abandoned
  11. CRESSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fort Worth Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4102663
    Abandoned
  12. Cresson Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fort Worth Crushed Stone · MSHA ID 4104238
    Abandoned
  13. DeCordova Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · 37 Trucking, LLC. · MSHA ID 4104530
    Abandoned
  14. Granbury Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · C Eagle Stone Supply LLC · MSHA ID 4105221
    Abandoned
  15. Granbury Quarry (req in error)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Natural Building Stone Co(req in error) · MSHA ID 4104517
    Abandoned
  16. Granbury Stone Co.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Granbury Stone Co. · MSHA ID 4104343
    Abandoned
  17. Hernandez Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hernandez Masonary · MSHA ID 4104796
    Abandoned
  18. Hood County Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · EOG Resources Inc · MSHA ID 4104696
    Abandoned
  19. Ingram Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ingram Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4102722
    Abandoned
  20. Kickin A Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kickin A · MSHA ID 4105042
    Abandoned
  21. Merrithew
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tovar Concrete & Rock Work · MSHA ID 4104602
    Abandoned
  22. Meyer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carroll Stone & Rock · MSHA ID 4104701
    Abandoned
  23. Meyer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred Carter Construction · MSHA ID 4103748
    Abandoned
  24. Mitchel Bend Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · BrazoStone · MSHA ID 4104736
    Abandoned
  25. mystic sands
    Surface metal/non-metal · wells excavation LLC · MSHA ID 4105097
    Abandoned
  26. Pat's Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hernandez Rock · MSHA ID 4104652
    Abandoned
  27. Rawhide Sand Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · EOG Resources, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104777
    Abandoned
  28. Rocks#2
    Surface metal/non-metal · GR Stone · MSHA ID 4105555
    Abandoned
  29. SCOTT STONE SUPPLY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scott Stone Supply · MSHA ID 4104053
    Abandoned
  30. SIMON PASTURE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brazos Stone & Masonry Inc · MSHA ID 4103747
    Abandoned
  31. Sonntag Materials, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sonntag Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104387
    Abandoned
  32. Sonntag Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sonntag Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104503
    Abandoned
  33. SQUAW CREEK MATERIALS
    Surface metal/non-metal · 37 Mining, LLC. · MSHA ID 4104103
    Abandoned
  34. Superior Topsoil & Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Topsoil & Materials · MSHA ID 4104297
    Abandoned
  35. T & T Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & T Materials · MSHA ID 4104892
    Abandoned
  36. T M & J QUARY #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · T M & J Quarry · MSHA ID 4104301
    Abandoned
  37. TEMPLE HALL SILICA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Temple Hall Silica Inc · MSHA ID 4104030
    Abandoned
  38. Tolar Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arnold Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4104578
    Abandoned
  39. Ward Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · J H Strain & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4103293
    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 34
Gravel Pit 22
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 10
Disturbed Surface 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.