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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Liberty County, Texas

Liberty County, Texas has 38 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1993. MSHA's register carries 40 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Liberty 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)
38
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
40
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1993 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 2.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    37 97.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned40 on register
  1. A & M Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & M Land Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103486
    Abandoned
  2. B & B AGGREGATES,INC. PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4103981
    Abandoned
  3. BAYTOWN 146 PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baytown Sand & Clay · MSHA ID 4103743
    Abandoned
  4. Cleveland Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · John B Services Inc · MSHA ID 4103493
    Abandoned
  5. Cleveland Plant #1177
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104567
    Abandoned
  6. CLEVELAND PLANT #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dds Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4103869
    Abandoned
  7. Cleveland Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cleveland Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4105058
    Abandoned
  8. Crosby Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smart Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103742
    Abandoned
  9. Dolan Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · John B Services Inc · MSHA ID 4102588
    Abandoned
  10. DOLEN PLANT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI Operations LP · MSHA ID 4104064
    Abandoned
  11. Dolen Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pioneer Concrete Of Texas Inc · MSHA ID 4103052
    Abandoned
  12. Dolen Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lattimore Materials Company LP · MSHA ID 4104411
    Abandoned
  13. FISHER BEND MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & M Construction Materials Company · MSHA ID 4103525
    Abandoned
  14. Fitch Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Welch & Welch Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4102720
    Abandoned
  15. Fowler Industries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fowler'S Truck Service · MSHA ID 4102984
    Abandoned
  16. Hardin Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hallett Materials · MSHA ID 4105337
    Abandoned
  17. Lema001
    Surface metal/non-metal · LEMA MATERIALS, LLC · MSHA ID 4105447
    Abandoned
  18. Liberty Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cle-Tex Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4102612
    Abandoned
  19. Liberty Ranch
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, LLC · MSHA ID 4105268
    Abandoned
  20. Moss Hill Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bucks Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4102849
    Abandoned
  21. Neals Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald Wall Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4103482
    Abandoned
  22. Plant No 36
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lone Star Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4103053
    Abandoned
  23. PLT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & B Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4104199
    Abandoned
  24. Plum Grove
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Concrete Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 4104924
    Abandoned
  25. Plum Grove
    Surface metal/non-metal · Diamondback Machinery, Inc/Diamondback Materials · MSHA ID 4105544
    Abandoned
  26. Rainbow Rock Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Transit Mix Concrete & Materials Company · MSHA ID 4102519
    Abandoned
  27. River Aggregates Romayor Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · River Aggregates, LLC · MSHA ID 4104760
    Abandoned
  28. Romayor Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alleyton Resource Company, LLC. · MSHA ID 4104893
    Abandoned
  29. Romayor Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Romayor Aggregates Inc. · MSHA ID 4104599
    Abandoned
  30. Romayor Sand Gravel & Materials, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Romayor Sand Gravel & Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104457
    Abandoned
  31. Sand Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baytown Sand & Clay · MSHA ID 4102774
    Abandoned
  32. Scott Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R D Scott Dozer Service · MSHA ID 4103471
    Abandoned
  33. Smart Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smart Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4102624
    Abandoned
  34. Smart Pit #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smart Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103789
    Abandoned
  35. South Central Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · ACE Industrial Sand LLC · MSHA ID 4105149
    Abandoned
  36. Tec Minerals Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI Operations LP · MSHA ID 4101146
    Abandoned
  37. Texas Industries Dolen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Industries · MSHA ID 4103911
    Abandoned
  38. TQP - Crosby
    Surface metal/non-metal · TQP-Crosby, LP · MSHA ID 4104268
    Abandoned
  39. Trinity River Dredge & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity River Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4102613
    Abandoned
  40. WHISKEY BRANCH
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103355
    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 13
Sand Pit 10
Gravel Pit 6
Sand Pit 4
Disturbed Surface 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Borrow Pit 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.