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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Henrico County, Virginia

Henrico County, Virginia has 91 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1952–1994. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 40 problems in the county, 32 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 18 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Henrico 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)
91
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
32
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1952–1994 40 OSMRE problems, 8 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
    9 6.9%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    31 23.7%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    60 45.8%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    11 8.4%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    20 15.3%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems40 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Deep Run P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Deep Run P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Deep Run P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Deep Run P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Deep Run P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Deep Run P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Deep Run P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Deep Run P3 Mine Opening In Reclamation
Deep Run P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Deep Run P3 Pits In Reclamation
Deep Run P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Deep Run P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Deep Run P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Gayton Road P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Gayton Road P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Gayton Road P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Gayton Road P3 Gobs In Reclamation
Gayton Road P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Gayton Road P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Meredith Branch P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Meredith Branch P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Meredith Branch P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Meredith Branch P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Meredith Branch P3 Gobs In Reclamation
Meredith Branch P3 Mine Opening In Reclamation
Meredith Branch P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Meredith Branch P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Tuckahoe Creek P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Tuckahoe Creek P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Equipment Facility In Reclamation
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Gobs In Reclamation
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Mine Opening In Reclamation
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Other In Reclamation
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Pits In Reclamation
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Slump In Reclamation
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Tuckahoe Creek P3 Spoil Area 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 Abandoned18 on register
  1. Carter Sand & Gravel Co Inc Sand An
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carter Sand & Gravel Co Inc · MSHA ID 4402380
    Abandoned
  2. Chatsworth
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tarmac Mid-Atlantic Inc · MSHA ID 4406222
    Abandoned
  3. Clay Pit Sanston
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redford Brick Company Inc · MSHA ID 4405564
    Abandoned
  4. Curles Neck
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4402422
    Abandoned
  5. Dotson Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sadler Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4404027
    Abandoned
  6. F C R Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · F C R Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4406575
    Abandoned
  7. FT. HARRISON PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4402429
    Abandoned
  8. Henrico Pit No 1 And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Virginia Inc · MSHA ID 4404221
    Abandoned
  9. Lone Star Cement Inc-Moore Property
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lone Star Cement Inc · MSHA ID 4404157
    Abandoned
  10. MCNEIL
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4406780
    Abandoned
  11. Meadow Road Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J J & B Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4402935
    Abandoned
  12. MEADOWROAD PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brett Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4406961
    Abandoned
  13. Mine No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · E R Plaster Contractor Inc · MSHA ID 4404785
    Abandoned
  14. Neustead Farm Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lone Star Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4402928
    Abandoned
  15. Shirley Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lone Star Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4402720
    Abandoned
  16. Springfield Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4402993
    Abandoned
  17. TURKEY ISLAND
    Surface metal/non-metal · Florida Rock Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4402416
    Abandoned
  18. Wilton Property
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lone Star Cement Inc · MSHA ID 4403967
    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
Disturbed Surface 28
Gravel Pit 19
Sand Pit 17
Gravel Pit 15
P3 Mine Opening 7
P3 Gobs 6
P1 Vertical Openings 5
P3 Spoil Area 5
P1 Subsidence 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 4
P2 Vertical Openings 4
P3 Slump 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Borrow Pit 2
P3 Pits 2
Quarry 2
P3 Equipment Facility 2
P3 Other 1
Quarry 1
P2 Subsidence 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.