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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Jefferson County, Washington

Jefferson County, Washington has 179 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1937–1999, including 1 prospect pits; 2 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 41 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Jefferson 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
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
41
2 features carry a name1 prospect pits29 quadrangle maps, published 1937–1999 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    1 0.6%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    2 1.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    176 98.3%
Named features on the maps2 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Mats Mats Quarry Quarry
Tubal Cain 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 Abandoned41 on register
  1. 1100 Morrison Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502368
    Abandoned
  2. 1719 5 Shake Mill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502364
    Abandoned
  3. 240 2-0 7 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501573
    Abandoned
  4. 242-11 7 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501984
    Abandoned
  5. 2422-6 4 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501985
    Abandoned
  6. 2849-1 6 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501528
    Abandoned
  7. 2849-4 1 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501529
    Abandoned
  8. 2907-10 4 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501531
    Abandoned
  9. 2909-4 8 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501527
    Abandoned
  10. 2926-3 8 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501348
    Abandoned
  11. 2926-6 7 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501532
    Abandoned
  12. 2927-1 0 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501534
    Abandoned
  13. 2927-1 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4501533
    Abandoned
  14. Bucks Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Park & Recreation Commission · MSHA ID 4502327
    Abandoned
  15. C-2000 A Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502366
    Abandoned
  16. C-2000 B Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502365
    Abandoned
  17. C-2000 C Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Itt Rayonier Inc · MSHA ID 4502367
    Abandoned
  18. Cape George Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J D Shotwell Company · MSHA ID 4502863
    Abandoned
  19. City Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Port Townsend · MSHA ID 4502924
    Abandoned
  20. County Portable Screens
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jefferson County Public Works Department · MSHA ID 4503139
    Abandoned
  21. Crown Zellerbach Hadlock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Kitsap Gravel & Asphalt · MSHA ID 4502637
    Abandoned
  22. Discovery Bay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Discovery Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 4503577
    Abandoned
  23. Dry Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wa Dept Of Natural Resources · MSHA ID 4502902
    Abandoned
  24. Elkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Discovery Timber Company · MSHA ID 4502735
    Abandoned
  25. Greens Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred Hill Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4502315
    Abandoned
  26. Hadlock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jefferson County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4500966
    Abandoned
  27. Hunt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & T Construction · MSHA ID 4502885
    Abandoned
  28. Lindsey'S New Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindsey Brothers · MSHA ID 4502786
    Abandoned
  29. Mats Mats Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glacier Northwest · MSHA ID 4500020
    Abandoned
  30. Park Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chelatchie Rock Products · MSHA ID 4502695
    Abandoned
  31. Phelan Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Natural Resources · MSHA ID 4502933
    Abandoned
  32. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Discovery Bay Materials · MSHA ID 4503461
    Abandoned
  33. PORT TOWNSEND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred Hill Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4503031
    Abandoned
  34. Quilcene Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & T Construction · MSHA ID 4502903
    Abandoned
  35. Quilcene Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jefferson County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4502901
    Abandoned
  36. Rocky Brook Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stan N. Johnston · MSHA ID 4503611
    Abandoned
  37. Shine Quarry Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shine Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 4503208
    Abandoned
  38. THORNDYKE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seton Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503312
    Abandoned
  39. Tower Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friend & Rikalo Inc · MSHA ID 4502976
    Abandoned
  40. Winfield Pit North
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Natural Resources · MSHA ID 4502783
    Abandoned
  41. Zellerbach Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Kitsap Gravel & Asphalt · MSHA ID 4502149
    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 101
Borrow Pit 35
Borrow Pit 17
Gravel Pit 12
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Prospect 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.