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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Whitman County, Washington

Whitman County, Washington has 182 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1948–1994. MSHA's register carries 24 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Whitman 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)
182
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
24
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits42 quadrangle maps, published 1948–1994 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    1 0.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    181 99.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned24 on register
  1. B & N Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & N Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503131
    Abandoned
  2. Blumenshein Repp Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Carbon Inc · MSHA ID 4500849
    Abandoned
  3. Central Ferry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitman Rock & Construction · MSHA ID 4501986
    Abandoned
  4. Colfax Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitman Rock & Construction · MSHA ID 4500554
    Abandoned
  5. Doneen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Carbon Inc · MSHA ID 4501183
    Abandoned
  6. Druffel Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 4501750
    Abandoned
  7. Flora Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · N A Degerstrom Inc · MSHA ID 4501762
    Abandoned
  8. Humequarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crow Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4501763
    Abandoned
  9. Nortwest Paving Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crow Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4500219
    Abandoned
  10. Parnell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitman County Engineers · MSHA ID 4500848
    Abandoned
  11. Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Atley Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502821
    Abandoned
  12. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shawnee Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4503112
    Abandoned
  13. Portable Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Construction & Logging · MSHA ID 4503138
    Abandoned
  14. Pullman Moscow Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · W R Sutherland General Contractors · MSHA ID 4502819
    Abandoned
  15. Pullman Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Carbon Inc · MSHA ID 4501181
    Abandoned
  16. Qs-P-98 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Washington State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 4502673
    Abandoned
  17. Schindler Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitman County Engineers · MSHA ID 4501585
    Abandoned
  18. Union Center Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitman County Engineers · MSHA ID 4500868
    Abandoned
  19. Union Center Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitman County Public Work Department · MSHA ID 4503083
    Abandoned
  20. Union Flat Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitman County Engineers · MSHA ID 4502712
    Abandoned
  21. Unit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seubert Excavators Inc · MSHA ID 4503078
    Abandoned
  22. United Paving Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Carbon Inc · MSHA ID 4502664
    Abandoned
  23. Wash Plant (Portable)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Atlas Sand & Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4503121
    Abandoned
  24. Wilma Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Atlas Sand & Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4502577
    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 109
Borrow Pit 50
Gravel Pit 10
Quarry 9
Borrow Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Open Pit Mine or 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.