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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Potter County, Texas

Potter County, Texas has 209 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1984. MSHA's register carries 34 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Potter 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)
209
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
34
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1984 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
    39 18.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    167 79.9%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    3 1.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned34 on register
  1. Abbott Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grant Trucking & Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4102909
    Abandoned
  2. AMARILLO LAND FILL SITE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hard Rock Crushing · MSHA ID 4104141
    Abandoned
  3. Amarillo Plant & Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwestern Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 4100062
    Abandoned
  4. Amarillo Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwestern Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 4102972
    Abandoned
  5. Bonita Creek Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc. · MSHA ID 4105144
    Abandoned
  6. Box Canyon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilvin-Terrill Ltd · MSHA ID 4102808
    Abandoned
  7. BOX CANYON PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates West Inc · MSHA ID 4101128
    Abandoned
  8. Bushland CRUSHER # 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Howell Sand Company Inc. · MSHA ID 4104687
    Abandoned
  9. Cold Water Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grant Trucking & Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4103177
    Abandoned
  10. Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Pauw Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4103611
    Abandoned
  11. CRUSHER #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holmes Construction Company LP · MSHA ID 4102864
    Abandoned
  12. Crusher #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Advantage Asphalt Products Ltd · MSHA ID 4104408
    Abandoned
  13. CRUSHER NO 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilvin-Terrill Ltd · MSHA ID 4102703
    Abandoned
  14. Curry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Pauw Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4102825
    Abandoned
  15. Fowler Cement
    Surface metal/non-metal · Messer Solutions, Inc. · MSHA ID 4105333
    Abandoned
  16. Fowler Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rocky Point Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 4105590
    Abandoned
  17. Gill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilvin-Terrill Ltd · MSHA ID 4102133
    Abandoned
  18. Gunter Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilvin-Terrill Ltd · MSHA ID 4103071
    Abandoned
  19. Harrington Station
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Pauw Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4102826
    Abandoned
  20. Harrington Station
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Pauw Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4103103
    Abandoned
  21. KRITSER PIT & PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Lee Milligan Inc · MSHA ID 4101248
    Abandoned
  22. MGI SAND PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monty Getman Inc · MSHA ID 4104187
    Abandoned
  23. P C #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104519
    Abandoned
  24. Pc #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103178
    Abandoned
  25. PORTABLE SCREEN #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holmes Construction Co LP. · MSHA ID 4103549
    Abandoned
  26. PORTABLE CRUSHER #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holmes Construction Co LP. · MSHA ID 4104050
    Abandoned
  27. PORTABLE POWER SCREEN #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Lee Milligan Inc · MSHA ID 4103633
    Abandoned
  28. POTTER COUNTY TEXAS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Potter County Road & Bridge Department · MSHA ID 4102947
    Abandoned
  29. Power Screen #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104595
    Abandoned
  30. ROVERING SCREENING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilvin-Terrill Ltd · MSHA ID 4103984
    Abandoned
  31. Sanders Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Amarillo Road Company · MSHA ID 4102643
    Abandoned
  32. Stewart Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Lee Milligan Inc · MSHA ID 4103290
    Abandoned
  33. Western Street
    Surface metal/non-metal · Texas Sand & Gravel/P & E Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 4103612
    Abandoned
  34. Wright Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wright Construction Company · MSHA ID 4102861
    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 73
Caliche Pit 43
Quarry 28
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 25
Gravel Pit 15
Disturbed Surface 12
Quarry 7
Tailings - Pond 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Caliche 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.