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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Johnson County, Texas

Johnson County, Texas has 102 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1995. MSHA's register carries 29 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Johnson 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)
102
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 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
    6 5.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    96 94.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned29 on register
  1. 317 Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thurman Transportation Inc. · MSHA ID 4105115
    Abandoned
  2. 919 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trophy Materials LLC · MSHA ID 4105571
    Abandoned
  3. Andrews Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Andrews Sand Company · MSHA ID 4102968
    Abandoned
  4. BILLY HOWELL INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Billy Howell Inc · MSHA ID 4104287
    Abandoned
  5. Brazos Point Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Metroplex Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103021
    Abandoned
  6. Charlie Phillips Crushed Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charlie Phillips Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4102301
    Abandoned
  7. Charlie Phillips I35 Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charlie Phillips Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4101627
    Abandoned
  8. CLEBURNE BASE #299
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4102965
    Abandoned
  9. Cleburne Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charlie Phillips Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4101687
    Abandoned
  10. Cleburne Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monarch Mountain Minerals & Aggregates, LLC · MSHA ID 4105122
    Abandoned
  11. CLEBURNE S & G #282 A&B
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4101164
    Abandoned
  12. Concord Quarry & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Concord Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103295
    Abandoned
  13. Decker Lease
    Surface metal/non-metal · Godley Material Inc · MSHA ID 4102915
    Abandoned
  14. Goodspeed Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodspeed Sand Company · MSHA ID 4104527
    Abandoned
  15. I-35 Sand Pit Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · I-35 Sand Pit Incorporated · MSHA ID 4103463
    Abandoned
  16. Jerry Ray 414
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thurman Transportation Inc. · MSHA ID 4105069
    Abandoned
  17. Johnson County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fort Worth Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4103222
    Abandoned
  18. Johnson County Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stallion Oilfield Construction LLC · MSHA ID 4104626
    Abandoned
  19. Layne Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tarrant Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4102264
    Abandoned
  20. Mills Crushed Stone Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mills Crushed Stone Company · MSHA ID 4104153
    Abandoned
  21. Nemo South Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Simpson Crushed Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4104620
    Abandoned
  22. PAUL PEIKOFF MATERIALS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paul Peikoff · MSHA ID 4104104
    Abandoned
  23. Plant No 1
    Facility metal/non-metal · Texas Lime Company · MSHA ID 4101504
    Abandoned
  24. Roving Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wallace Materials · MSHA ID 4103627
    Abandoned
  25. Tesmec USA, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tesmec USA, Inc. · MSHA ID 4105441
    Abandoned
  26. Thurman 106
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thurman Transportation Inc. · MSHA ID 4105406
    Abandoned
  27. THURMAN TRANSP INC SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thurman Transportation Inc · MSHA ID 4103568
    Abandoned
  28. Thurman Transportation Inc Hwy 67 Sand P
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thurman Transportation Inc · MSHA ID 4104029
    Abandoned
  29. Wallace Materials #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wallace Materials · MSHA ID 4103661
    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 47
Gravel Pit 29
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 11
Quarry 8
Disturbed Surface 5
Strip Mine 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.