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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Limestone County, Texas

Limestone County, Texas has 42 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1960–1978. MSHA's register carries 32 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Limestone 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)
42
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1960–1978 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    42 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned32 on register
  1. Ainsworth Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glenn Fuqua Inc · MSHA ID 4103122
    Abandoned
  2. Atkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Young Brothers Inc Contractors · MSHA ID 4103142
    Abandoned
  3. BC WARD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & M Crushed Stone Products, Inc. · MSHA ID 4105297
    Abandoned
  4. Conners Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates · MSHA ID 4103963
    Abandoned
  5. Frost #7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frost Crushed Stone · MSHA ID 4104748
    Abandoned
  6. Groesbeck Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Destructors, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104698
    Abandoned
  7. GROESBECK PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates West Inc · MSHA ID 4103527
    Abandoned
  8. Groesbeck Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4104385
    Abandoned
  9. Honest Ridge Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & M Crushed Stone Products, Inc. · MSHA ID 4105296
    Abandoned
  10. Honest Ridge Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 4104106
    Abandoned
  11. Jokola #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · 5R, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104346
    Abandoned
  12. Katelynn
    Surface metal/non-metal · Primal Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 4105279
    Abandoned
  13. Kleeman 110
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prater Dirt Work, LLC · MSHA ID 4105563
    Abandoned
  14. Kosse 5a Crushed Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sandco Inc · MSHA ID 4103254
    Abandoned
  15. Kosse Bulk And Bag Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Dresser Minerals Division · MSHA ID 4102388
    Abandoned
  16. Kosse Crushed Stone Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kosse Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4103245
    Abandoned
  17. Kosse Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Silica Company · MSHA ID 4100262
    Abandoned
  18. Kosse Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · D P Frost Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103096
    Abandoned
  19. Kosse Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redland Stone Products Company · MSHA ID 4103090
    Abandoned
  20. KOSSE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Constr. Materials, L.P. · MSHA ID 4103951
    Abandoned
  21. LEHIGH CEMENT CO KOSSE CLAY QY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clarence Shields Inc · MSHA ID 4103728
    Abandoned
  22. Limestone Project
    Facility coal · Utility Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 4103244
    Abandoned
  23. Mexia Materials/Redland
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River Corporation-South · MSHA ID 4103231
    Abandoned
  24. MEXIA PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates West Inc · MSHA ID 4103281
    Abandoned
  25. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Caylor Specialty Blending · MSHA ID 4104057
    Abandoned
  26. Portable Crusher No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · R W Mc Kinney & T L James & Company Inc · MSHA ID 4102755
    Abandoned
  27. Smith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · D P Frost Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103280
    Abandoned
  28. Stooksberry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 4103169
    Abandoned
  29. Stranger Crushed Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stranger Crushed Stone · MSHA ID 4103091
    Abandoned
  30. Tehuacana Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4103812
    Abandoned
  31. Viper
    Surface metal/non-metal · Consolidated Crushed Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104403
    Abandoned
  32. Yelverton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 4102422
    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 18
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Clay Pit 7
Quarry 4
Gravel Pit 4
Borrow 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.