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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Island County, Washington

Island County, Washington has 61 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1998. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Island 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)
61
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1998 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    61 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. Ault Field Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · R W M Corp · MSHA ID 4502470
    Abandoned
  2. Camano Island Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Island County Road Department · MSHA ID 4501299
    Abandoned
  3. Central Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Krieg Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4502704
    Abandoned
  4. Central Whidbey Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Whidbey Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4500653
    Abandoned
  5. Christie Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charles Christie · MSHA ID 4502987
    Abandoned
  6. Coupeville Pit & Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Island County Road Department · MSHA ID 4501298
    Abandoned
  7. Erling Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seegert Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4501304
    Abandoned
  8. F-1 Enterprises
    Surface metal/non-metal · F-1 Enterprises · MSHA ID 4503434
    Abandoned
  9. Harrington Lagoon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Black'S Construction · MSHA ID 4502859
    Abandoned
  10. HENNI PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Island County Road Department · MSHA ID 4501297
    Abandoned
  11. Krieg Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Krieg Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4501301
    Abandoned
  12. Kyles Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kyle's Pit LLC · MSHA ID 4503527
    Abandoned
  13. Lindell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Island Property Mangement · MSHA ID 4503526
    Abandoned
  14. Marine Asphalt Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marine Asphalt · MSHA ID 4501067
    Abandoned
  15. Oak Harbor Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miles Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4500607
    Abandoned
  16. Oak Harbor Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L G Cunningham · MSHA ID 4502357
    Abandoned
  17. Prairie Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed's Construction · MSHA ID 4502990
    Abandoned
  18. Trask Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J T Trask Construction Co · MSHA ID 4502264
    Abandoned
  19. Veit Asphalt Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whidbey Gravel & Surfacing Corp · MSHA ID 4501302
    Abandoned
  20. WE DIG IT GRAVEL INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · We Dig It Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503426
    Abandoned
  21. Whidbey Island Highway #20 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Concrete Nor'West Inc · MSHA ID 4502243
    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 25
Borrow Pit 14
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 13
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 5
Gravel Pit 2
Quarry 1
Quarry 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.