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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Clallam County, Washington

Clallam County, Washington has 252 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1935–1995, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 4 prospect pits; 3 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 70 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Clallam 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)
252
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
70
3 features carry a name4 prospect pits37 quadrangle maps, published 1935–1995 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
    1 0.4%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    4 1.6%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    17 6.7%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    230 91.3%
Named features on the maps3 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Starbuch Mine Open Pit Mine
Starbuch Mine Open Pit Mine
Starbuck Mine Prospect Pit

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned70 on register
  1. 101 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501973
    Abandoned
  2. 1066 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 4502292
    Abandoned
  3. 10k Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501979
    Abandoned
  4. 1400 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Merrill & Ring · MSHA ID 4503166
    Abandoned
  5. 2931-0 1 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501553
    Abandoned
  6. 2993-0 1 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501549
    Abandoned
  7. 300-0 9 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501552
    Abandoned
  8. 301-2 9 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501551
    Abandoned
  9. 302-1 0 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501550
    Abandoned
  10. 5000 North Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501163
    Abandoned
  11. 5058 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501980
    Abandoned
  12. 5060 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501921
    Abandoned
  13. 5214 51 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502747
    Abandoned
  14. 7000 J Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 4502789
    Abandoned
  15. 7106 Quarry Port Blakely Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 4502308
    Abandoned
  16. 7130 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 4502309
    Abandoned
  17. 9500 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crown Zellerbach Corp · MSHA ID 4502288
    Abandoned
  18. A-Line Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Makah Forestry Enterprise · MSHA ID 4503223
    Abandoned
  19. Airport Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · D A I Earth Products · MSHA ID 4503247
    Abandoned
  20. Asphalt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502121
    Abandoned
  21. Beaver Falls Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delhur Inc · MSHA ID 4502897
    Abandoned
  22. Beaver Falls Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruch & Bruch Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503245
    Abandoned
  23. Bogachiel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501080
    Abandoned
  24. Bonidu Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delhur Inc · MSHA ID 4502934
    Abandoned
  25. Bruch & Bruch Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruch & Bruch Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503676
    Abandoned
  26. Campbell Hole Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forks Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4500628
    Abandoned
  27. County Zone No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clallam County-Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 4503162
    Abandoned
  28. County Zone No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clallam County-Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 4503163
    Abandoned
  29. County Zone No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clallam County-Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 4503164
    Abandoned
  30. Davis Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Davis Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4500616
    Abandoned
  31. Deer Park Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas Tinkham · MSHA ID 4502238
    Abandoned
  32. Duncan 5000 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501977
    Abandoned
  33. Eclipse Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Industries, Inc · MSHA ID 4501043
    Abandoned
  34. Elwah Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interwest Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503741
    Abandoned
  35. Floe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · DelHur Industries, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503760
    Abandoned
  36. Forks Office Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501352
    Abandoned
  37. Goodman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Goodman Rock Products · MSHA ID 4500977
    Abandoned
  38. Green Crow Rock Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steve Wirth Enterprises Inc. · MSHA ID 4503729
    Abandoned
  39. Hard Rock Gardiner Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hard Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4503234
    Abandoned
  40. Hopf Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peninsula Block Manufacturing · MSHA ID 4502813
    Abandoned
  41. Jim West Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jim West Inc · MSHA ID 4501090
    Abandoned
  42. Jimmy Come Lately Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Puget Sound Surfacers Inc · MSHA ID 4500855
    Abandoned
  43. K Line Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4501086
    Abandoned
  44. Kirner Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clallam County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4502332
    Abandoned
  45. KIRNER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Primo Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503323
    Abandoned
  46. Lake Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clallam County-Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 4502266
    Abandoned
  47. Mary Clark Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Olsen & Miller Logging Company Inc · MSHA ID 4500974
    Abandoned
  48. Mine #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jonathan Shotwell Corp · MSHA ID 4502688
    Abandoned
  49. Mine #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jonathan Shotwell Corp · MSHA ID 4503533
    Abandoned
  50. MINNER & CO
    Surface metal/non-metal · MINNER & CO · MSHA ID 4503784
    Abandoned
  51. Morse Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delhur Inc · MSHA ID 4501282
    Abandoned
  52. Morse Creek Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forrest Hansen · MSHA ID 4500624
    Abandoned
  53. Mt Pleasant Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Industries · MSHA ID 4500972
    Abandoned
  54. MT PLEASANT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mt Pleasant Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4503249
    Abandoned
  55. NORTH QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruch & Bruch Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503397
    Abandoned
  56. Old Horstman Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · H G Horstman · MSHA ID 4501724
    Abandoned
  57. Old Smokey Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Forest Resources · MSHA ID 4503222
    Abandoned
  58. Ozette Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502318
    Abandoned
  59. P Line Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Forest Resources · MSHA ID 4501088
    Abandoned
  60. Portable Crusher 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · DelHur Industries, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503536
    Abandoned
  61. PUGET SOUND SURFACERS INC G3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Puget Sound Surfacers Inc · MSHA ID 4503155
    Abandoned
  62. Rains Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delhur Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4502628
    Abandoned
  63. Screen-It Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Industries, Inc · MSHA ID 4503641
    Abandoned
  64. Seberts Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Delhur Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4503185
    Abandoned
  65. Sekiu S & G Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sekiu Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4503244
    Abandoned
  66. Seton Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Puget Sound Surfacers Inc · MSHA ID 4502639
    Abandoned
  67. TWIN RIVERS CLAY, INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Twin River Clay Inc · MSHA ID 4500920
    Abandoned
  68. Umbrella Creek Pit Lower
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clallam County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4501983
    Abandoned
  69. WAATCH QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bunn Construction Company · MSHA ID 4503165
    Abandoned
  70. West Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Excel Construction & Equipment Inc · MSHA ID 4502626
    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 68
Borrow Pit 47
Borrow Pit 30
Quarry 30
Quarry 28
Gravel Pit 17
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 12
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 10
Open Pit Mine 5
Prospect Pit 4
Adit 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.