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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Clark County, Washington

Clark County, Washington has 90 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1940–1994, including 3 prospect pits; 6 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 55 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Clark 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)
90
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
55
6 features carry a name3 prospect pits21 quadrangle maps, published 1940–1994 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    3 3.3%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    10 11.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    77 85.6%
Named features on the maps6 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Fisher Quarry Quarry area
Golden Wonder Mine Open Pit Mine
Maple Pit Open Pit Mine or Quarry
Mile 8 Pit Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated area
Silver Star Mine Open Pit Mine
Silver Star Mine Open Pit Mine

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 Abandoned55 on register
  1. 192nd Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quarry Direct Stone Sales, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503614
    Abandoned
  2. 88st Crusher
    Facility metal/non-metal · Construction Materials Exchange LLC · MSHA ID 4503658
    Abandoned
  3. Aphis Portable Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aphis Ready Mix · MSHA ID 4503274
    Abandoned
  4. Babler Brothers Quarry Products Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Babler Brothers Quarry Products Inc · MSHA ID 4503246
    Abandoned
  5. Bjorklund Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · K L Bruhn Company · MSHA ID 4502708
    Abandoned
  6. Chelatchie Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chelatchie Rock LLC · MSHA ID 4503523
    Abandoned
  7. Circle C Rock Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Circle C Rock Products · MSHA ID 4503307
    Abandoned
  8. Columbia Rock Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Rock Products · MSHA ID 4503798
    Abandoned
  9. Day Break Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Day Break Rock · MSHA ID 4502603
    Abandoned
  10. Daybreak Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark County Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 4502069
    Abandoned
  11. Diced Rock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · George Schmid & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4503500
    Abandoned
  12. EAGLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michael Allen Trucking & Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4503596
    Abandoned
  13. East County Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rotschy Inc. · MSHA ID 4503621
    Abandoned
  14. English Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peter Kiewit Sons' Company · MSHA ID 4501155
    Abandoned
  15. English Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4503089
    Abandoned
  16. Evergreen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · George Schmid & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4503487
    Abandoned
  17. Extec 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · NW Construction General Contracting Incorporated · MSHA ID 4503502
    Abandoned
  18. Finn Hill Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark County Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 4500171
    Abandoned
  19. Fisher Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gilbert Western Corp · MSHA ID 4500081
    Abandoned
  20. Fisher Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4503039
    Abandoned
  21. Fisher Quarry/192nd Ave
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stone NW Inc · MSHA ID 4503671
    Abandoned
  22. Haag & Shaw Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Haag & Shaw Excavating · MSHA ID 4502943
    Abandoned
  23. Hidden Clay Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hidden Brick Company · MSHA ID 4500246
    Abandoned
  24. JLS CRUSHER #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · J L Storedahl & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4502700
    Abandoned
  25. JLS Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · J L Storedahl & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4502646
    Abandoned
  26. Lawton Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schmid & Sons · MSHA ID 4502707
    Abandoned
  27. Livingston Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark County Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 4502569
    Abandoned
  28. LOOKOUT RIDGE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steve Smith Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503435
    Abandoned
  29. Lower River Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kampe Readymix Inc · MSHA ID 4500646
    Abandoned
  30. Maple Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark County Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 4500172
    Abandoned
  31. Mill Plain Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · George Schmid & Sons · MSHA ID 4502645
    Abandoned
  32. Mill Plain Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Rock & Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4501153
    Abandoned
  33. Mobile Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Clark Construction · MSHA ID 4503270
    Abandoned
  34. Nichols Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Clark Construction · MSHA ID 4502748
    Abandoned
  35. Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · DRD Construction, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 4503793
    Abandoned
  36. Port of Vancouver DBA CalPortland
    Surface metal/non-metal · CalPortland Company · MSHA ID 4503285
    Abandoned
  37. Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiewit Pacific Co. · MSHA ID 3503447
    Abandoned
  38. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Rock Products LLC · MSHA ID 4503364
    Abandoned
  39. Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Rock Products LLC · MSHA ID 4503071
    Abandoned
  40. PORTABLE #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Csr Associated Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502666
    Abandoned
  41. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Crushing · MSHA ID 4503578
    Abandoned
  42. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Fork Resources · MSHA ID 4503810
    Abandoned
  43. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · George Schmid & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4503157
    Abandoned
  44. Portable Crusher 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lomac Enterprises LLC · MSHA ID 4503608
    Abandoned
  45. Portable Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Rock Products LLC · MSHA ID 4501154
    Abandoned
  46. Screen Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · CME-Construction Materials Exchange · MSHA ID 4503610
    Abandoned
  47. Section 30
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tapani, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503830
    Abandoned
  48. Serenity Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washougal Basalt Rock Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 4503513
    Abandoned
  49. Smith Brothers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith Brothers Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4502652
    Abandoned
  50. TEBO PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tebo Brothers Rock Products · MSHA ID 4502888
    Abandoned
  51. VANCOUVER ROCK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & R Joint Venture · MSHA ID 4500757
    Abandoned
  52. Vancouver Rock Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vancouver Rock Company · MSHA ID 4502625
    Abandoned
  53. WA Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiewit Pacific Co · MSHA ID 4503478
    Abandoned
  54. Washougal Aggregates
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Rock Products LLC · MSHA ID 4502605
    Abandoned
  55. Woodland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zimmerly Rock Products · MSHA ID 4500846
    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 20
Quarry 17
Borrow Pit 16
Gravel Pit 9
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Prospect Pit 3
Open Pit Mine 3
Clay Pit 1
Quarry 1
Borrow Pit 1
Disturbed Surface - Pit 1
Other counties in WashingtonAll counties →
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.