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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Travis County, Texas

Travis County, Texas has 335 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1994. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 1 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 19 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Travis 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)
335
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
19
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits23 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1994 1 OSMRE problems, 1 reclaimed 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
    4 1.2%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    331 98.5%
  3. Other
    symbols outside the classes above
    1 0.3%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems1 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
SMRD Records Scanning PH 411(h)(2) Non-Mining Expenditure Reclamation Completed

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned19 on register
  1. AusTex Aggregates South
    Surface metal/non-metal · AusTex Aggregates, LLC · MSHA ID 4105508
    Abandoned
  2. AUSTIN AGGREGATES
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cemex Usa · MSHA ID 4103277
    Abandoned
  3. Austin Aggregates 973 Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC Texas, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104124
    Abandoned
  4. Austin River Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capitol Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 4101792
    Abandoned
  5. Green S & G Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI Operations LP · MSHA ID 4103121
    Abandoned
  6. Hacket Pit & Plant No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 4101904
    Abandoned
  7. Hacket Pit And Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 4101905
    Abandoned
  8. J. V. DIRT & LOAM
    Surface metal/non-metal · Service Holdings Inc · MSHA ID 4103211
    Abandoned
  9. Keller Crusher And Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allen Keller Company · MSHA ID 4102821
    Abandoned
  10. MARCELO DIRT-LOAM
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marcelo'S Inc · MSHA ID 4103597
    Abandoned
  11. McNeil Plant & Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Austin White Lime Company, Ltd. · MSHA ID 4100001
    Abandoned
  12. NAUMANN'S EQUIP CO INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Naumann'S Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 4103351
    Abandoned
  13. Onion Creek Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Colorado Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103036
    Abandoned
  14. Onion Creek Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Onion Creek Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4101793
    Abandoned
  15. PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shumaker Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4103205
    Abandoned
  16. Shapard Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Centex Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4101887
    Abandoned
  17. TXI Owen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · TXI Operations LP · MSHA ID 4103896
    Abandoned
  18. WEBBERVILLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capitol Aggregates Ltd · MSHA ID 4103873
    Abandoned
  19. Y B Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Y B Dirt & Loam · MSHA ID 4103429
    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 190
Gravel Pit 89
Quarry 21
Quarry 16
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 10
Borrow Pit 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
PH 411(h)(2) Non-Mining Expenditure 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.