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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Douglas County, Washington

Douglas County, Washington has 179 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1965–2004, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 32 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Douglas 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)
179
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits40 quadrangle maps, published 1965–2004 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 0.6%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    1 0.6%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    177 98.9%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Chief Moses Council Cave Adit

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 Abandoned32 on register
  1. ARP Prtbl Fabtech/Tidco
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Rock Products · MSHA ID 4503452
    Abandoned
  2. Basin Asphalt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Basin Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4501387
    Abandoned
  3. Batterman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Batterman Engineering & Construct · MSHA ID 4502083
    Abandoned
  4. Buob Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Douglas County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502162
    Abandoned
  5. COLUMBIA INDUSTRIAL PARK LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Construction · MSHA ID 4503443
    Abandoned
  6. Coyote Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coyote Canyon Pit · MSHA ID 4502440
    Abandoned
  7. Douglas Co Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Basin Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4502997
    Abandoned
  8. Farrington Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia River Concrete · MSHA ID 4502568
    Abandoned
  9. Foster-Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Republic Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 4503198
    Abandoned
  10. Hartl Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Concrete Products · MSHA ID 4503006
    Abandoned
  11. Hartl Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hartl Construction Company · MSHA ID 4503049
    Abandoned
  12. Hill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Asphalt Specialties Inc · MSHA ID 4503035
    Abandoned
  13. Holcomb Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Douglas County Road Department · MSHA ID 4501687
    Abandoned
  14. Lux Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Douglas County Road Department · MSHA ID 4502089
    Abandoned
  15. Mattiesen Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ellensburg Cement Products Inc · MSHA ID 4501688
    Abandoned
  16. Mitchell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mitchell Trucking and Paving, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503625
    Abandoned
  17. Montgomery Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · AAA Readymix, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503858
    Abandoned
  18. Mr. Rock Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alpine Rock Walls Inc. · MSHA ID 4503640
    Abandoned
  19. NILE ST PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & K Construction · MSHA ID 4503447
    Abandoned
  20. Palisades Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bethlehem Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503143
    Abandoned
  21. Portable Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lloyd Palm Construction · MSHA ID 4503378
    Abandoned
  22. Ps-Do-101 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 4502657
    Abandoned
  23. Ps-Do-158
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 4502907
    Abandoned
  24. Ps-Do-21
    Surface metal/non-metal · State Of Washington-Department Of Highways · MSHA ID 4502442
    Abandoned
  25. Qs-Do-140 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 4502650
    Abandoned
  26. Qs-Do-184
    Surface metal/non-metal · Midland Rock Products · MSHA ID 4502905
    Abandoned
  27. Qs-Do-21
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ellensburg Cement Products Inc · MSHA ID 4502906
    Abandoned
  28. Rock Island Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Concrete Products · MSHA ID 4500683
    Abandoned
  29. Rock Island Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Concrete Products · MSHA ID 4502570
    Abandoned
  30. Rocky Reach Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Paving & Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502864
    Abandoned
  31. Sutor Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Douglas County Road Department · MSHA ID 4501691
    Abandoned
  32. Zacher Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Verbeck Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4502406
    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
Borrow Pit 74
Gravel Pit 69
Borrow Pit 11
Gravel Pit 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Sand Pit 4
Clay Pit 3
Quarry 2
Adit 1
Sand 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.