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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Tarrant County, Texas

Tarrant County, Texas has 384 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1995. MSHA's register carries 35 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Tarrant 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)
384
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
35
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits27 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
    34 8.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    350 91.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned35 on register
  1. 4-D SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · 4-D Sand Pit · MSHA ID 4104280
    Abandoned
  2. Back Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Back Materials · MSHA ID 4103678
    Abandoned
  3. Bajemi Corp Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bajemi Corp · MSHA ID 4102456
    Abandoned
  4. BENNETT-LAWSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Custom Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4103908
    Abandoned
  5. Dyer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dyer Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103701
    Abandoned
  6. Eagle Mountain Plant #55
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lafarge Corp · MSHA ID 4103248
    Abandoned
  7. Eagle Mt Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harston Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4101097
    Abandoned
  8. Excavating Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ft Worth Excavating · MSHA ID 4103913
    Abandoned
  9. Fincher Bros Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fincher Bros Inc · MSHA ID 4104549
    Abandoned
  10. Fort Worth Cement Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Portland Inc · MSHA ID 4100023
    Abandoned
  11. Fort Worth Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Portland Inc · MSHA ID 4102932
    Abandoned
  12. Gifford And Hill Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & C Materials Company · MSHA ID 4102950
    Abandoned
  13. Hatton Sumners Sand & Gravel Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 4101080
    Abandoned
  14. J&W SAND&GRAV CO INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & W Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103645
    Abandoned
  15. Joe's Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe's Sand Pit · MSHA ID 4104281
    Abandoned
  16. KD LIMESTONE OPERATION.
    Surface metal/non-metal · KD CONSOLIDATED INVESTMENTS, LLC.. · MSHA ID 4105138
    Abandoned
  17. Lacy Plant #13
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gifford-Hill & Company · MSHA ID 4101084
    Abandoned
  18. Lake Side Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harston Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4102771
    Abandoned
  19. Mayer Construction, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mayer Construction, LLC · MSHA ID 4104763
    Abandoned
  20. Metroplex Sand & Gravel LTD
    Surface metal/non-metal · Metroplex Sand & Gravel LTD · MSHA ID 4104116
    Abandoned
  21. North Texas Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Texas Sand · MSHA ID 4104731
    Abandoned
  22. PLANT # 5
    Surface metal/non-metal · METROPLEX SAND & GRAVEL. LTD · MSHA ID 4105152
    Abandoned
  23. QUIGLEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri Dal Ltd · MSHA ID 4104237
    Abandoned
  24. Quigley Pit And Plant No 532
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 4101077
    Abandoned
  25. River Bend Materials Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · River Bend Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103524
    Abandoned
  26. Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & L Sand Inc · MSHA ID 4103761
    Abandoned
  27. Silver Creek Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · J B Word & Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103087
    Abandoned
  28. T J L Boyd Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T J Lambrecht Construction · MSHA ID 4104417
    Abandoned
  29. TARRANT AGGREG CORP
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tarrant Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 4103698
    Abandoned
  30. TARRANT AGGREGATE #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · F W Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4103766
    Abandoned
  31. Tarrant County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Birdwell Construction Company · MSHA ID 4102924
    Abandoned
  32. TJL 157 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T J Lambrecht Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4104222
    Abandoned
  33. TJL GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · T J Lambrecht Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4104221
    Abandoned
  34. TOPSOIL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holder Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4103718
    Abandoned
  35. WILLIAMS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williams Sand & Gravel Pit · MSHA ID 4102403
    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 158
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 93
Gravel Pit 80
Disturbed Surface 26
Strip Mine 6
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Quarry - Limestone 4
Quarry 4
Sand Pit 3
Sand Pit 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Disturbed Surface - 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.