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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Wise County, Texas

Wise County, Texas has 65 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1978. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 2 problems in the county, 2 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 36 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Wise 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)
65
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
2
MSHA mines marked abandoned
36
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1978 2 OSMRE problems, 0 reclaimed 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    2 3.0%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    3 4.5%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    62 92.5%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems2 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Wise Richey P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Wise Richey P1 Portals Reclamation Pending

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 Abandoned36 on register
  1. 380 Crushed Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · J C H Inc · MSHA ID 4103630
    Abandoned
  2. Alvord Plant #1292
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103689
    Abandoned
  3. Asphalt Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bravo Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4103046
    Abandoned
  4. Boyd Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc) · MSHA ID 4101150
    Abandoned
  5. Boyd Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Materials Company · MSHA ID 4102989
    Abandoned
  6. Bridgeport Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Brick Company · MSHA ID 4100244
    Abandoned
  7. BRIDGEPORT QUARRY #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vista Aggregates Llc · MSHA ID 4104044
    Abandoned
  8. Bridgeport Rock Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lattimore Materials Company LP · MSHA ID 4103040
    Abandoned
  9. Bridgeport Tunnels
    Underground metal/non-metal · JS Redpath · MSHA ID 4105057
    Abandoned
  10. C & C Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & C Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4103570
    Abandoned
  11. Chico
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Texas Rock & Sand, Ltd. · MSHA ID 4104820
    Abandoned
  12. CHICO LIMESTONE INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chico Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 4103224
    Abandoned
  13. Chico Limestone, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chico Limestone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4104478
    Abandoned
  14. Chico Plant #32
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chico Crushed Stone Partnership · MSHA ID 4101242
    Abandoned
  15. CHICO QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates · MSHA ID 4100076
    Abandoned
  16. Congress Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Congress Materials · MSHA ID 4104372
    Abandoned
  17. D & M Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & M Inc · MSHA ID 4104435
    Abandoned
  18. Decatur Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials Of Tx, Inc. · MSHA ID 4103914
    Abandoned
  19. Epoch Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Epoch Corp · MSHA ID 4103427
    Abandoned
  20. GARLAND SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Garland Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4104146
    Abandoned
  21. Hollingsworth Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hollingsworth Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 4104611
    Abandoned
  22. Hwy 380 Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Aggregates · MSHA ID 4105065
    Abandoned
  23. Lester W Mathis Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bridgeport Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 4102842
    Abandoned
  24. Matbon Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Matbon Inc · MSHA ID 4104384
    Abandoned
  25. NEWARK S & G
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4102988
    Abandoned
  26. Norton Development
    Surface metal/non-metal · Derrick Randall · MSHA ID 4103813
    Abandoned
  27. Pope Murray Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lone Star Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4101816
    Abandoned
  28. Portable Chico Plant #34
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chico Crushed Stone Partnership · MSHA ID 4103793
    Abandoned
  29. River Bottom Dirt
    Surface metal/non-metal · River Bottom Dirt · MSHA ID 4105017
    Abandoned
  30. Smith Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marock Inc · MSHA ID 4102970
    Abandoned
  31. Smock One Stop Material
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smock's One Stop Material LLC · MSHA ID 4104831
    Abandoned
  32. Trinity Stone, L.P.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trinity Stone, L.P. · MSHA ID 4104386
    Abandoned
  33. Txi Metroplex Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Txi Metroplex Stone · MSHA ID 4103077
    Abandoned
  34. Wise County Precinct #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wise County Comm Precinct #3 · MSHA ID 4103790
    Abandoned
  35. WISE DIRT
    Surface metal/non-metal · D-6 Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4104192
    Abandoned
  36. Wise Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Materials Company · MSHA ID 4100017
    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
Quarry 13
Quarry 11
Gravel Pit 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Disturbed Surface 3
Clay Pit 2
P1 Portals 2
Clay Pit 2
Borrow Pit 1
Borrow Pit 1
Sand 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.