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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in McLennan County, Texas

McLennan County, Texas has 306 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1993. MSHA's register carries 43 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering McLennan 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)
306
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
43
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 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
    33 10.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    273 89.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned43 on register
  1. (Dragline) Dl1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Downing Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4103450
    Abandoned
  2. #101 PENDLEY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barnett Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 4102564
    Abandoned
  3. 1845 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Young Brothers Inc Contractors · MSHA ID 4103551
    Abandoned
  4. 1860 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Young Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4103858
    Abandoned
  5. 340 PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Young Materials Corp · MSHA ID 4103543
    Abandoned
  6. 434 SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4104225
    Abandoned
  7. 4D #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bryan McCartney Construction · MSHA ID 4104525
    Abandoned
  8. Bosque Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bosque Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4102708
    Abandoned
  9. C&S SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · M S Scott Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4104020
    Abandoned
  10. DBR Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · DBR Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4104282
    Abandoned
  11. Delmar Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delmar Materials LLC · MSHA ID 4104152
    Abandoned
  12. DONALDSON LANE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4104077
    Abandoned
  13. DONALDSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & B Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4103940
    Abandoned
  14. Downsville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Contractors, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104404
    Abandoned
  15. Downsville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Materials · MSHA ID 4104498
    Abandoned
  16. Eaglelite Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eaglelite Aggregate Company · MSHA ID 4100314
    Abandoned
  17. EE Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4104003
    Abandoned
  18. GENE JACKSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & B Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4104138
    Abandoned
  19. H & B Jackson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & B Contractors Ltd · MSHA ID 4104283
    Abandoned
  20. Hirsch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & B Contractors Ltd · MSHA ID 4104421
    Abandoned
  21. Howell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-America Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103160
    Abandoned
  22. Howell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Young Materials Corporation · MSHA ID 4103754
    Abandoned
  23. Hunt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & B Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4102707
    Abandoned
  24. J & J Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & J Materials · MSHA ID 4103249
    Abandoned
  25. JACKSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4104137
    Abandoned
  26. Lake Brazos Dredge And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Young Brothers Inc Contractors · MSHA ID 4102504
    Abandoned
  27. LATHERN SAND
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Lathern Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4104021
    Abandoned
  28. Luckett Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redland Stone Products Company · MSHA ID 4101124
    Abandoned
  29. Meyer Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4104619
    Abandoned
  30. Moncus Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louis Moncus Construction · MSHA ID 4102706
    Abandoned
  31. MONCUS PIT 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Louis Moncus Construction · MSHA ID 4103542
    Abandoned
  32. Portable Plant 01
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Materials Group Inc. · MSHA ID 4105295
    Abandoned
  33. Rosenfeld Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · BC Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4104584
    Abandoned
  34. S. J. SCOTT S&G
    Surface metal/non-metal · S J Scott Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4103946
    Abandoned
  35. SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand Pit · MSHA ID 4102928
    Abandoned
  36. Thompson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Contractors, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104456
    Abandoned
  37. TREE LAKE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4104080
    Abandoned
  38. WACO GRAVEL PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mine Service Inc · MSHA ID 4104004
    Abandoned
  39. Waco Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arcosa Aggregates Texas, LLC · MSHA ID 4103492
    Abandoned
  40. WACO PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates West Inc · MSHA ID 4101088
    Abandoned
  41. Waco Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Universal Atlas Cement Company · MSHA ID 4102936
    Abandoned
  42. WACO S & G WEST
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4101168
    Abandoned
  43. Washer Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Young Brothers Inc Contractors · MSHA ID 4103589
    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 155
Gravel Pit 87
Disturbed Surface 31
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 19
Quarry 7
Caliche Pit 3
Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
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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.