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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Grays Harbor County, Washington

Grays Harbor County, Washington has 285 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1938–1994, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 95 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Grays Harbor 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)
285
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
95
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits50 quadrangle maps, published 1938–1994 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. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    20 7.0%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    264 92.6%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
State Gravel Pit Gravel 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 Abandoned95 on register
  1. 101 North Shore
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502369
    Abandoned
  2. 2128-3 4 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501996
    Abandoned
  3. 2256-0 4 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501509
    Abandoned
  4. 2257c-1 0 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R D Scott Trucking Co · MSHA ID 4501567
    Abandoned
  5. 2259-0 6 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502331
    Abandoned
  6. 2260-0 1 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501554
    Abandoned
  7. 230-0 2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501566
    Abandoned
  8. 2302-12 2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501561
    Abandoned
  9. 2302-9 4 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501563
    Abandoned
  10. 2303-1 2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501568
    Abandoned
  11. 231 1-0 4 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502345
    Abandoned
  12. 231-3 2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501559
    Abandoned
  13. 246-3 6 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501556
    Abandoned
  14. 5200 Deep Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502359
    Abandoned
  15. 5200-5216 Brown Rock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502932
    Abandoned
  16. 5204 84 Quarry Or 5204 8 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502360
    Abandoned
  17. 5250 Deep Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502362
    Abandoned
  18. 5252 Deep Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502361
    Abandoned
  19. 6000 Camp 6 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502363
    Abandoned
  20. 9105 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502378
    Abandoned
  21. 9111 (Bia) Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502376
    Abandoned
  22. 9115 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502377
    Abandoned
  23. 9200 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502370
    Abandoned
  24. 9301 6 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502372
    Abandoned
  25. 9310 Lunch Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502371
    Abandoned
  26. 9408 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502375
    Abandoned
  27. 9410 Shale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502374
    Abandoned
  28. 9420 1 (Bia) Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502373
    Abandoned
  29. A & M Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson & Middleton Lumber Company · MSHA ID 4502730
    Abandoned
  30. Aberdeen Crushing & Screening
    Facility metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers-Mc Donald Inc · MSHA ID 4502303
    Abandoned
  31. Anderman Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderman Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4503122
    Abandoned
  32. Badgett Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Development Company · MSHA ID 4502806
    Abandoned
  33. Bert Sutton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friend & Rikalo Inc · MSHA ID 4502682
    Abandoned
  34. Blue Mountain Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weyerhaeuser Company · MSHA ID 4502636
    Abandoned
  35. Capitol Ridge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock · MSHA ID 4503464
    Abandoned
  36. Chamberlain Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · C A Chamberlain · MSHA ID 4502742
    Abandoned
  37. Chandler Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503686
    Abandoned
  38. Charlie Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friend & Rikalo Inc · MSHA ID 4502957
    Abandoned
  39. Charmin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friend & Rikalo Inc · MSHA ID 4502616
    Abandoned
  40. Cosmopolis Pit (Mobile Screen)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weyerhaeuser Company · MSHA ID 4502382
    Abandoned
  41. Cottonwood Ranch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cottonwood Ranch Inc · MSHA ID 4503597
    Abandoned
  42. Crusher Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schermer Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503382
    Abandoned
  43. CRUSHER PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers-Schermer Inc · MSHA ID 4503333
    Abandoned
  44. DARCO NW CORP
    Surface metal/non-metal · Darco Nw Corp · MSHA ID 4503433
    Abandoned
  45. Elma Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cowlitz Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503132
    Abandoned
  46. Evergreen Rock Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Evergreen Rock Products · MSHA ID 4503114
    Abandoned
  47. Furlough Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boise Cascade Corp · MSHA ID 4502787
    Abandoned
  48. GARDEN CITY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · House Brothers Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503275
    Abandoned
  49. Grays Harbor Duck Club (Bayview)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Development Company · MSHA ID 4502894
    Abandoned
  50. Hagara & Sons Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hagara & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4502908
    Abandoned
  51. Hagara Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hagara & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4502800
    Abandoned
  52. Humptulips Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers Inc. · MSHA ID 4503618
    Abandoned
  53. Interstate Property Investment Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Property Investment Company · MSHA ID 4502474
    Abandoned
  54. Jacks In & Out Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Puget Sound Surfacers Inc · MSHA ID 4502734
    Abandoned
  55. Jacks In Out Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Puget Sound Surfacers Inc · MSHA ID 4501734
    Abandoned
  56. Kollman Portable Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arris Kollman Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4503462
    Abandoned
  57. KOLLMAN PORTABLE POWER SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arris Kollman Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4503463
    Abandoned
  58. Landberg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hagara & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4502838
    Abandoned
  59. Landberg Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Landberg Construction · MSHA ID 4502475
    Abandoned
  60. LITTLE CREEK/HUMPTULIPS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arris Kollman Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4503472
    Abandoned
  61. Lund 15 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weyerhaeuser Company · MSHA ID 4502635
    Abandoned
  62. Mayr Newskah Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mayr Brothers Logging Company · MSHA ID 4502911
    Abandoned
  63. Mc Cleary #2 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Don Makoviney Co Inc · MSHA ID 4502876
    Abandoned
  64. Mc Cleary Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers-Mc Donald Inc · MSHA ID 4502543
    Abandoned
  65. Melbourne Dredge & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers-Mc Donald Inc · MSHA ID 4502408
    Abandoned
  66. Minot Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weyerhaeuser Company · MSHA ID 4502425
    Abandoned
  67. New Packing Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friend & Rikalo Inc · MSHA ID 4502617
    Abandoned
  68. Newskah 11 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hagara & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4502634
    Abandoned
  69. Newskah Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4500319
    Abandoned
  70. Newskah Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers-Mc Donald Inc · MSHA ID 4500551
    Abandoned
  71. Newskah Upper 5 11
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hagara & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4502873
    Abandoned
  72. Northwest Rock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boe Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4502763
    Abandoned
  73. Oakville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers-Mc Donald Inc · MSHA ID 4502833
    Abandoned
  74. Oakville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers-Mc Donald Inc · MSHA ID 4502542
    Abandoned
  75. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willapa Rock & Supply, Inc. · MSHA ID 4502518
    Abandoned
  76. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arris Kollman Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4503331
    Abandoned
  77. PORTABLE CRUSHER #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friend & Rikalo Inc · MSHA ID 4502614
    Abandoned
  78. Portable Crusing Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4503306
    Abandoned
  79. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Bros Inc · MSHA ID 4503458
    Abandoned
  80. Porter Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Natural Resources · MSHA ID 4502937
    Abandoned
  81. Quinault Tribal Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Neilton Landscaping Inc · MSHA ID 4503525
    Abandoned
  82. Rock Crusher Hill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4503418
    Abandoned
  83. Satsop Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quigg Brothers-Mc Donald Inc · MSHA ID 4502875
    Abandoned
  84. Schoch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monte Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503115
    Abandoned
  85. SCHOCH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4502895
    Abandoned
  86. Schouweiler Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4503557
    Abandoned
  87. Schouweiler Road Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Associated Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502541
    Abandoned
  88. Smiley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Asphalt Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502555
    Abandoned
  89. Spike Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503268
    Abandoned
  90. State Pit Ps-H-128
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Asphalt Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502798
    Abandoned
  91. Studer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4503598
    Abandoned
  92. Washington State Trucking
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Trucking · MSHA ID 4503639
    Abandoned
  93. Wheel Mounted Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4503446
    Abandoned
  94. Wishkah Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mayr Brothers Logging Company · MSHA ID 4502760
    Abandoned
  95. Wynoochee Gravel Bar
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friend & Rikalo Inc · MSHA ID 4502615
    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 98
Borrow Pit 72
Borrow Pit 38
Gravel Pit 34
Disturbed Surface 11
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 10
Quarry 8
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Disturbed Surface - Pit 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Adit 1
Quarry 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.