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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Klickitat County, Washington

Klickitat County, Washington has 207 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1957–1994, including 2 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 1 prospect pits. MSHA's register carries 35 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Klickitat 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)
207
Mine openings
2
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
35
0 features carry a name1 prospect pits42 quadrangle maps, published 1957–1994 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
    2 1.0%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    1 0.5%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    2 1.0%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    201 97.1%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 0.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned35 on register
  1. Appleton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Arlie Bryant Inc · MSHA ID 4502940
    Abandoned
  2. Avery Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Northwest Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4500671
    Abandoned
  3. Bingen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J K Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4501877
    Abandoned
  4. Blockhouse Butte Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin's Feed, Inc. · MSHA ID 4502011
    Abandoned
  5. Cunningham Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stanley Thompson Company · MSHA ID 4502018
    Abandoned
  6. Dallesport Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiewit Pacific Co. · MSHA ID 4503229
    Abandoned
  7. Dickey Farm Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Arlie Bryant Inc · MSHA ID 4501610
    Abandoned
  8. Eagle Crusher 1100cc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pilot Knob Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503499
    Abandoned
  9. Fairgrounds Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Redrock Wholesales Inc · MSHA ID 4503061
    Abandoned
  10. Gregory Source Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 4502606
    Abandoned
  11. Hanshaw Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redrock Wholesales Inc · MSHA ID 4503017
    Abandoned
  12. Hunsaker Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunsaker Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4500639
    Abandoned
  13. Hunsaker Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunsaker Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4502293
    Abandoned
  14. Ingram Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triangle Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502918
    Abandoned
  15. JDC Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Dean Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 4503812
    Abandoned
  16. Jewett Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of White Salmon · MSHA ID 4502489
    Abandoned
  17. Klickitat County Pits And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Klickitat County Road Dept · MSHA ID 4502151
    Abandoned
  18. Layman No 2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · D M Layman Inc · MSHA ID 4501885
    Abandoned
  19. Lyle Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J K Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4502013
    Abandoned
  20. Mercer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triangle Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4503030
    Abandoned
  21. Norris Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mountain View Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 4503739
    Abandoned
  22. Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saunders Inc · MSHA ID 4503823
    Abandoned
  23. Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smasne Excavation & Transport LLC · MSHA ID 4503674
    Abandoned
  24. Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · IV Riley Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503801
    Abandoned
  25. Portable Crushing And Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riley Brothers Inc. · MSHA ID 4503301
    Abandoned
  26. Randy's Red Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Randy's Red Rock · MSHA ID 4501886
    Abandoned
  27. Riley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jim Riley Excavating · MSHA ID 4502659
    Abandoned
  28. S D S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S D S Lumber Company · MSHA ID 4501884
    Abandoned
  29. Sleep Hollow Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sleepy Hollow Quarry Inc. · MSHA ID 4503569
    Abandoned
  30. Terry Schmid Gravel/Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Terry Schmid Gravel · MSHA ID 4503496
    Abandoned
  31. THOMPSON QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mark'S Pyramid Concrete & Construction · MSHA ID 4500699
    Abandoned
  32. Trout Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tuss Crushing Company · MSHA ID 4502527
    Abandoned
  33. West Winds Concrete & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Winds Concrete & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 4503531
    Abandoned
  34. WIN-DEA-NEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dean & Defazio Inc · MSHA ID 4503353
    Abandoned
  35. Windy Flats
    Surface metal/non-metal · Herling Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503663
    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 65
Borrow Pit 55
Gravel Pit 50
Gravel Pit 18
Quarry 6
Adit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Cinder Pit 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Cinder Pit 2
Prospect Pit 1
Mine Dump 1
Clay 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.