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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Yakima County, Washington

Yakima County, Washington has 237 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1948–1998, including 12 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 44 prospect pits; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 33 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Yakima 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)
237
Mine openings
12
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
33
1 features carry a name44 prospect pits66 quadrangle maps, published 1948–1998 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
    12 5.1%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    44 18.6%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    16 6.8%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    165 69.6%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Pozzuolana Mine Open Pit Mine

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 Abandoned33 on register
  1. A&R
    Surface metal/non-metal · A&R Excavating · MSHA ID 4503852
    Abandoned
  2. Al Simmons Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Simmons Lumber Company · MSHA ID 4502815
    Abandoned
  3. ARP Portable Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Rock Products · MSHA ID 4503721
    Abandoned
  4. ARP Prtbl Crusher WP/Kolberg
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Rock Products · MSHA ID 4503623
    Abandoned
  5. Asphalt & Gravel Products Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Asphalt & Gravel Products Inc · MSHA ID 4500575
    Abandoned
  6. Cagi Portable Washplant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Ready-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4503388
    Abandoned
  7. DTG Rock & Demolition Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · DTG Enterprises, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503375
    Abandoned
  8. Eagle Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gary J. Trepanier Excavating · MSHA ID 4503521
    Abandoned
  9. Eagle Rock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Simmons & Son Hauling · MSHA ID 4503392
    Abandoned
  10. East Selah Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yakima Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 4500727
    Abandoned
  11. Emerald Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Ready Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4500713
    Abandoned
  12. Fabtec/Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Ready Mix · MSHA ID 4503504
    Abandoned
  13. Grandview Sand Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Ready Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4501245
    Abandoned
  14. Heffron Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snipes Mountain Gravel · MSHA ID 4503041
    Abandoned
  15. Herke Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Herke Rock & Construction · MSHA ID 4503530
    Abandoned
  16. Herke Quarry Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Herke Rock & Construction · MSHA ID 4503520
    Abandoned
  17. Newland Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yakima Concrete & Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 4503158
    Abandoned
  18. Pile Up Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502109
    Abandoned
  19. Rap Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Ready-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4503534
    Abandoned
  20. Reclaim Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reclaim Company,LLC · MSHA ID 4503796
    Abandoned
  21. Riverside Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverside Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4502728
    Abandoned
  22. Satus Shale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wapato Irrigation Project (Bia) · MSHA ID 4502392
    Abandoned
  23. Simmons Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Simmons Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4502910
    Abandoned
  24. SNIPES MTN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snipes Mountain Gravel · MSHA ID 4503313
    Abandoned
  25. State Pit Ps-E-311
    Surface metal/non-metal · De Atley Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502896
    Abandoned
  26. Summitview Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eagle Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 4501089
    Abandoned
  27. Thompson Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thompson Ready Mix · MSHA ID 4500718
    Abandoned
  28. Tim'S Pond
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triangle Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4502954
    Abandoned
  29. Toppenish Facility
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co · MSHA ID 4500631
    Abandoned
  30. Yakima Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4500995
    Abandoned
  31. Yakima Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co · MSHA ID 4503362
    Abandoned
  32. Zillah Bridge Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Verbeck Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4502890
    Abandoned
  33. Zillah Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Country Gals Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 4502974
    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 97
Prospect Pit 44
Borrow Pit 25
Adit 12
Gravel Pit 10
Disturbed Surface 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Quarry 7
Cinder Pit 5
Quarry 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 4
Clay Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Open Pit Mine 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Borrow Pit 2
Sand Pit 2
Sand and Gravel 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.