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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Harrison County, West Virginia

Harrison County, West Virginia has 670 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1902–1997, including 211 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 17 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 1,294 problems in the county, 727 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 239 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Harrison 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)
670
Mine openings
211
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
727
MSHA mines marked abandoned
239
17 features carry a name0 prospect pits20 quadrangle maps, published 1902–1997 1,294 OSMRE problems, 567 reclaimed 42 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
    350 17.8%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    413 21.0%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    4 0.2%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    89 4.5%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    83 4.2%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1,024 52.1%
  7. Other
    symbols outside the classes above
    1 0.1%
Named features on the maps17 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Cook Mine Adit
Cook Mine Adit
Dawson Mine Adit
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Mine Strip Mine area
Former Strip Mine Strip Mine area
Lynch Mines Open Pit Mine
Ocean Mine Adit
Ocean Mine Adit
Williams Mine 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.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems1,294 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
(gypsy Ii) P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
(gypsy Ii) P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
A. Fay Division High P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
A. Kendall Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
A. Kendall Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
A. M. Ward Highwall P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
A.w. Randolph Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Abruzzino Portal And Drainage P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Abruzzino Portal And Drainage P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Adamston (gladwell) Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Adamston (lopez) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamston (Maxwell) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamston (Maxwell) WA II P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Adamston (starkey) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamsville P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamsville P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Adamsville P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Adamsville (Blake) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamsville (Boring) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamsville (Nay) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamsville (pillo) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamsville (Potesta) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Adamsville (Sayres) DI P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Adamsville (Sayres) DI P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Adamsville Highwal P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Adamsville Road (Weaver) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Al Fleming Highwall #1 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Al Fleming Highwall #2 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Al Fleming Highwall #3 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Al Fleming Highwall #3 P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Al Stephanic Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Albert Yelich Drainage P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Allen Amd P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Allen McPherson Highwall P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Allen McPherson Highwall P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Allen McPherson Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Allen Sheridan Hazardous Facilities P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Allied (anderson) Subs. I, Ii,iii,i P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Allied (clausen) Drainage P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Allied (kellerman) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Alphe Hill Road Mine Drainage P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Alphe Mine Portals And Refuse P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Alphe Mine Portals And Refuse P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Alphe Mine Portals And Refuse P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Alphe Mine Portals And Refuse P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Anmoore Landslide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Anmoore Mine Drainage P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Arlington (cox) Drainage P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Arlington (cox) Drainage P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Arlington (cox) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Arlington (CR 24/1) Subsidence I-II P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
B. Debolt Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Barbara Robey Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Barker Mine Drainage Maintenance P1 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Barker Mine Drainage Maintenance P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Barker Mine Drainage Maintenance P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Barker Mine Drainage Maintenance P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Barker Mine Drainage Maintenance P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Barlett Portal P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Barnes Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Barnett Run Strip P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Belcastro Burning Refuse P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Belcastro Burning Refuse P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Belle Pollace Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Bennett Run Portal P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bennett Run Portal P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Bennetts Run (Robey) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bennetts Run Road (Jordan) Subsiden P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Akers) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Amos) DI and AMD P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Bethlehem (Amos) DI and AMD P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Bethlehem (Bittinger) Subsidence I- P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Bittinger) Subsidence I- P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Bittinger) Subsidence I- P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Bittinger) Subsidence I- P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Bethlehem (Citro) Subsidence I & II P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Citro) Subsidence I & II P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Cochran) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (gibbs) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Gifford) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (hawkins) Subs. I And Ii P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (kellar) Subs. P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (livingston) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Mackey) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (moran) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Rose) Subsidence I-IV P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (springer) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Toothman) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (Victoria Rose Lane) Subs P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem (weekley) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem Presbyterian Church Subsi P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bethlehem Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Bice Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Bill Greory Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Bingamon Creek (moore) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bingamon Creek Portals and Drainage P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bingamon Creek Portals and Drainage P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Bingamon Creek Portals and Drainage P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Birds Creek Highwall #1 P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Birds Creek Highwall #2 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Birds Creek Highwall #3 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Birds Run Slide P1 Dangerous Slides In Reclamation
Bonds Run Highwall P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bonds Run Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Bonds Run Highwall P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Bonnel Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Booths Creek Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Bramer Amd P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Brandywine Road (Hall) Vertical Ope P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bridgeport (Emily Dr.) Mine Drainag P1 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Bridgeport (Emily Dr.) Mine Drainag P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Bridgeport (Moore) Drainage P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending
Bridgeport (Tomes) Landslide P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Bridgeport (Tomes) Landslide P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Bridgeport (Tomes) Landslide P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Bridgeport Hill (Green) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bridgeport Hill Road Portals P1 Portals In Reclamation
Broadstone Drainage P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Brown's Creek #10 P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Brown's Creek #10 P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Brown's Creek #10 P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Brown's Creek #10 P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Brown's Creek #10 P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Brown's Creek #10 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Brown's Creek #2 P2 Portals In Reclamation
Brown's Creek #2 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Brown's Creek Portals P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Brown's Creek Portals P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
Brown's Creek Portals P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Brown's Creek Portals P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Browns Creek #4 Portals P2 Portals In Reclamation
Browns Creek #4 Portals P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Browns Creek #5 Portals P2 Portals In Reclamation
Browns Creek #5 Portals P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Brushy Fork (cunningham) Clogged St P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Brushy Fork Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Bud Queen Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Buena Vista Avenue (HUD) Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Buffalo Creek Reservoir Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Burl Gould Highwall P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Pending
Burl Gould Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Burl Gould Highwall P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Burl Gould Landslides P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Burl Gould Landslides P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Burl Gould Landslides P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Pending
Burl Gould Landslides P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Cambria (male) Amd P1 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Cambria Portals and Drainage P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Cambria Portals and Drainage P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Cambria Portals and Drainage II P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Pending

…and 1144 more problems not listed here.

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned239 on register
  1. #1 Strip
    Surface coal · C J Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4604535
    Abandoned
  2. #1 Strip
    Surface coal · Bridgeport Mining Company · MSHA ID 4606153
    Abandoned
  3. #1 Strip
    Surface coal · Gerald Ann Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606488
    Abandoned
  4. #17 Sardis Mine
    Underground coal · Miami Coal Company · MSHA ID 4607337
    Abandoned and Sealed
  5. #3 Mine
    Underground coal · Fairfax Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4608633
    Abandoned and Sealed
  6. #5 Mine
    Underground coal · Kay Thomas Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602125
    Abandoned
  7. Airport Mine
    Underground coal · Scorpio Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4607858
    Abandoned and Sealed
  8. AmericanMountaineer Mine
    Facility coal · West Virginia Land Resources, Inc. · MSHA ID 4609382
    Abandoned
  9. Anker Energycorp
    Facility coal · Anker Energy Corp · MSHA ID 4608006
    Abandoned
  10. B & E #1 Strip
    Surface coal · B & E Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606026
    Abandoned
  11. B C & J Coal #1 Strip
    Surface coal · B C & J Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604833
    Abandoned
  12. Bailey & Righter Mine
    Surface coal · A & H Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 4604489
    Abandoned
  13. Bell Strip
    Surface coal · Bell Mining Company · MSHA ID 4602686
    Abandoned
  14. Bjorkman Surface Mines
    Surface coal · Bjorkman Mining Company · MSHA ID 4603449
    Abandoned
  15. Blue Grass
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bingamon Corp · MSHA ID 4608978
    Abandoned
  16. Blue Grass Mine
    Surface coal · Farmers Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606091
    Abandoned
  17. Brown'S Limestone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brown'S Limestone · MSHA ID 4603156
    Abandoned
  18. Brushy Fork
    Surface coal · Brushy Fork Resources, LLC · MSHA ID 4609122
    Abandoned
  19. Charity Fork Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Bell Mining Company · MSHA ID 4608193
    Abandoned
  20. Charlie No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · Paul Harrold Inc · MSHA ID 4605290
    Abandoned
  21. Charlie No 2 Mine
    Underground coal · Paul Harrold Inc · MSHA ID 4605291
    Abandoned
  22. Chieftain #1
    Facility coal · Chieftain Development Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605494
    Abandoned
  23. Chieftain #2
    Underground coal · Chieftain Development Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606702
    Abandoned and Sealed
  24. Chub Run Strip
    Surface coal · L & J Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604529
    Abandoned
  25. Circle H
    Surface coal · Circle H Farms · MSHA ID 4606737
    Abandoned and Sealed
  26. Clark Strip
    Surface coal · Fresa Construction Company · MSHA ID 4604095
    Abandoned
  27. Cobun #1 Strip
    Surface coal · Cobun Contracting Company · MSHA ID 4606334
    Abandoned
  28. Coffman Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Nu-Way Mining Company · MSHA ID 4604853
    Abandoned
  29. Coltrane Job
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reynolds & Bramer Inc · MSHA ID 4607824
    Abandoned
  30. Community Coal Co Inc No 1
    Surface coal · Community Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4607447
    Abandoned and Sealed
  31. Compass No 2 Ug
    Underground coal · Clinchfield Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601312
    Abandoned
  32. Crooked Run Strip
    Surface coal · R & A Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604232
    Abandoned
  33. Cunningham Run Deep Mines
    Surface coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4609461
    Abandoned
  34. Davis Kincheloe
    Surface coal · Black Express Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606058
    Abandoned
  35. Davis Mine
    Surface coal · Nesco Inc · MSHA ID 4608128
    Abandoned
  36. Davisson Run Mine No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Paul-Don Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604944
    Abandoned
  37. Dawn No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Dawn Company · MSHA ID 4605819
    Abandoned
  38. Dawson Mine Ug
    Underground coal · Galloway Land Co · MSHA ID 4601315
    Abandoned
  39. Deep Mine #1
    Underground coal · Treyco Inc · MSHA ID 4606038
    Abandoned
  40. Deep Mine No 7
    Underground coal · E & S Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4607953
    Abandoned and Sealed
  41. Deltom Tipple
    Facility coal · Thompson Coal & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4603383
    Abandoned
  42. Despard Ballfield
    Surface coal · R C Lapeer Builders Inc · MSHA ID 4604753
    Abandoned
  43. Diamond Head Mine
    Surface coal · C & M Coal Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 4605555
    Abandoned
  44. Dimaria Job
    Facility coal · Mon-Go Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4606989
    Abandoned
  45. Dimaria Job
    Surface coal · J & B Coal Company · MSHA ID 4607060
    Abandoned
  46. Dola #1
    Facility coal · Arch Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606552
    Abandoned
  47. Dola Fines
    Surface coal · Carbon Dry Corp · MSHA ID 4608512
    Abandoned
  48. Dola Fines Pile
    Surface coal · Providence Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 4607383
    Abandoned
  49. Dola Mine
    Underground coal · Glory Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4601314
    Abandoned and Sealed
  50. Dola No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Shreve Constuction Company · MSHA ID 4605095
    Abandoned
  51. Dola Refuse Area
    Surface coal · Patriot Mining Company LLC · MSHA ID 4608453
    Abandoned
  52. Dorothy No 5 Tipple
    Facility coal · Warjean Coal Company · MSHA ID 4600444
    Abandoned
  53. Flag Run #1
    Underground coal · M & J Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4608259
    Abandoned and Sealed
  54. Flag Run Mine
    Underground coal · Glory Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4603150
    Abandoned and Sealed
  55. Flag Run Mine
    Surface coal · Club Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4608396
    Abandoned
  56. Gary Mine
    Surface coal · Ten-A-Coal Company · MSHA ID 4607515
    Abandoned
  57. Gator #1
    Surface coal · Gator Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4606689
    Abandoned
  58. Gobel #2
    Underground coal · Shell Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606030
    Abandoned and Sealed
  59. Gobel Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Jo-Lee Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605965
    Abandoned
  60. Good Hope-Isaacs Creek 140 -Surface
    Surface coal · King Knob Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604651
    Abandoned
  61. Grace Auger
    Surface coal · Bundy Auger Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4608790
    Abandoned
  62. Green Valley No 4 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · King Knob Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4602763
    Abandoned
  63. Gypsy No L Gobpile
    Surface coal · Tara Corp · MSHA ID 4608483
    Abandoned
  64. Hackers Creek Mine #18
    Underground coal · Miami Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606984
    Abandoned and Sealed
  65. Harrison County Mine
    Surface coal · Grafton Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602450
    Abandoned
  66. Harrison Fuel Inc Mine
    Underground coal · Harrison Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 4606101
    Abandoned and Sealed
  67. Harrison Tract
    Surface coal · Byron Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4607154
    Abandoned
  68. Haywood Tipple
    Facility coal · United International Inc · MSHA ID 4607157
    Abandoned
  69. Holbert Job
    Surface coal · Ameri Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4606799
    Abandoned and Sealed
  70. Horner's Run Mine
    Surface coal · Marion Docks, Inc. · MSHA ID 4609088
    Abandoned
  71. Hustead #1
    Surface coal · Kelley Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605614
    Abandoned
  72. Isaacs Creek
    Surface coal · Testa Coal Company · MSHA ID 4607133
    Abandoned
  73. Issac Creek Mine
    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605915
    Abandoned
  74. Jack Run #1
    Surface coal · Jack Run Development Inc · MSHA ID 4606096
    Abandoned
  75. Jack Run Mine
    Surface coal · Patricia Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4608572
    Abandoned
  76. Jack Run Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Jack Run Development Inc · MSHA ID 4604537
    Abandoned
  77. Jane Lew No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Stininger Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605406
    Abandoned
  78. Jarvisville Strip
    Surface coal · Eran Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602779
    Abandoned
  79. Jesse'S Run Surface Mine No 1
    Surface coal · United Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4607101
    Abandoned
  80. Johnstown Job
    Surface coal · B & B Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606286
    Abandoned
  81. Johnstown No. 1
    Underground coal · Difficult Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4608185
    Abandoned and Sealed
  82. Jones Run Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Conrad Contractors · MSHA ID 4602741
    Abandoned
  83. Katy Lick No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Nada Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604974
    Abandoned
  84. Killarm #2 Strip
    Surface coal · King Knob Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4602897
    Abandoned
  85. Laurel Run
    Underground coal · Scorpio Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4608667
    Abandoned and Sealed
  86. Laurel Run #2
    Underground coal · Scorpio Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4608871
    Abandoned and Sealed
  87. Lifes Run
    Surface coal · Use Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4604481
    Abandoned
  88. Loss-Riggs Surface Mine S-2003-05
    Surface coal · Coalex Inc. · MSHA ID 4609109
    Abandoned
  89. Lost Creek #1 Mine
    Underground coal · Signal Resources Llc · MSHA ID 4608628
    Abandoned and Sealed
  90. Lowe Pit No 1
    Surface coal · Cheyenne Development Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604611
    Abandoned
  91. M & B Enterprises Surface Mine
    Surface coal · M & B Enterprises · MSHA ID 4604948
    Abandoned
  92. M E G No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · M E G Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604436
    Abandoned
  93. Marion Fuels #1
    Underground coal · Marion Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 4605503
    Abandoned and Sealed
  94. Mars No 2 Ug
    Underground coal · Clinchfield Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601313
    Abandoned
  95. Mary Lynn #1
    Underground coal · Delta Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4607859
    Abandoned
  96. Mcginnis Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Rex Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4602342
    Abandoned
  97. McMillion/Raikes Surface
    Surface coal · DP Southbound Coal Co. LLC · MSHA ID 4609483
    Abandoned
  98. Mcwhorter #1
    Facility coal · United Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4605970
    Abandoned
  99. Mcwhorter #2
    Facility coal · United Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4605460
    Abandoned
  100. Mcwhorter No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · United Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4602733
    Abandoned
  101. Meadowbrook
    Surface coal · Alvarez Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605673
    Abandoned
  102. Mine #1
    Surface coal · Gallo Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606725
    Abandoned
  103. Mine #1
    Underground coal · Markovich Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606726
    Abandoned and Sealed
  104. Mine #1
    Surface coal · J & J Guzzi Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4607027
    Abandoned
  105. Mine #2
    Surface coal · Lewis Construction & Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4607391
    Abandoned
  106. Mine No 1
    Facility coal · Chapel Valley Development Company · MSHA ID 4605713
    Abandoned
  107. Mine No 1
    Surface coal · D M G Inc · MSHA ID 4606574
    Abandoned
  108. Mine No 1
    Underground coal · Treyco Inc · MSHA ID 4606588
    Abandoned and Sealed
  109. Mine No 2
    Surface coal · Mountaineer Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4604386
    Abandoned
  110. Mt Clare No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · M & M Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 4606275
    Abandoned
  111. Myers #2
    Surface coal · Myers Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606731
    Abandoned
  112. Nada 12 Mine
    Underground coal · Nada Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605044
    Abandoned
  113. Nancy
    Surface coal · Ten-A-Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602737
    Abandoned
  114. No 1
    Surface coal · Union Grant Coal & Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4606377
    Abandoned
  115. No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · Bridgeport Mining Company · MSHA ID 4603211
    Abandoned
  116. No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · E & S Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4603863
    Abandoned
  117. No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · Gallo Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604385
    Abandoned
  118. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · L L & B Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605433
    Abandoned
  119. No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · L L & B Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605461
    Abandoned
  120. No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · Stonewood Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606064
    Abandoned
  121. No 1 Mine
    Surface coal · Rimco Sales Inc · MSHA ID 4606975
    Abandoned
  122. No 1 Mine
    Underground coal · M & J Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4607156
    Abandoned and Sealed
  123. No 1 Mine (Surface)
    Surface coal · R C Lapeer Builders Inc · MSHA ID 4604437
    Abandoned
  124. No 1 Mine Auger
    Surface coal · Wesgin Mining Company · MSHA ID 4602431
    Abandoned
  125. No 1 Mine Strip
    Surface coal · Wesgin Mining Company · MSHA ID 4602430
    Abandoned
  126. No 1 Mine Surface
    Surface coal · S Brent Stewart Inc · MSHA ID 4602836
    Abandoned
  127. No 1 Mine-Strip
    Surface coal · Daniel Boone Coal Company Of Wv Inc · MSHA ID 4604046
    Abandoned
  128. No 1 Preparation Plant
    Facility coal · Ablution Coals Inc · MSHA ID 4605790
    Abandoned
  129. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · R M W Development Company · MSHA ID 4604384
    Abandoned
  130. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Ste-Met Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605381
    Abandoned
  131. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Milford Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606001
    Abandoned
  132. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · J C Corp · MSHA ID 4606483
    Abandoned
  133. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Ok Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4607115
    Abandoned and Sealed
  134. No 1 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · General Mining Company · MSHA ID 4602695
    Abandoned
  135. No 1 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Farmers Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4602835
    Abandoned
  136. No 1 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Asa Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604573
    Abandoned
  137. No 1 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Global Land & Mineral Company · MSHA ID 4604603
    Abandoned
  138. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Rogers Construction Company · MSHA ID 4604319
    Abandoned
  139. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Paul Harrold Inc · MSHA ID 4604341
    Abandoned
  140. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · H & W Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604379
    Abandoned
  141. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · C & D Associates · MSHA ID 4604686
    Abandoned
  142. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Bond Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604855
    Abandoned
  143. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · C & C Contracting · MSHA ID 4605239
    Abandoned
  144. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Liberty Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605399
    Abandoned
  145. No 1 Surface
    Surface coal · Nationwide Fuel Inc · MSHA ID 4605665
    Abandoned
  146. No 1 Surface Mine
    Surface coal · Lyle Newman Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604463
    Abandoned
  147. No 1 Tipple
    Facility coal · Wellington Enterprise · MSHA ID 4605379
    Abandoned
  148. No 1-C Strip
    Surface coal · Grafton Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602096
    Abandoned
  149. No 1-Mine
    Surface coal · Nada Coal Company · MSHA ID 4603754
    Abandoned
  150. No 10 Mine
    Underground coal · Ten-A-Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605560
    Abandoned

…and 89 more mines not listed here.

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
Strip Mine 339
P1 Subsidence 246
Adit 204
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 135
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 111
P3 High Wall 93
P3 Water Problems 92
P2 Portals 84
P2 Clogged Streams 72
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 70
P2 Dangerous Slides 63
P1 Dangerous Slides 45
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 42
P2 Subsidence 40
Tipple 37
P3 Gobs 36
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 32
P1 Dangerous Impoundments 21
P1 Portals 21
P1 Vertical Openings 19
P2 Vertical Openings 15
P1 Clogged Streams 14
P3 Equipment Facility 11
P3 Spoil Area 11
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 11
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 11
P3 Slump 10
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 8
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 5
Air Shaft 5
P3 Mine Opening 4
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 4
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 4
P1 Surface Burning 4
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 4
P3 Other 3
Mine Dump 3
P1 Clogged Stream Lands 3
P3 Pits 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 2
P3 Bench 2
P2 Surface Burning 2
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 2
Tailings - Undifferentiated 2
Mine Shaft 2
P3 Haul Road 2
Disturbed Surface 2
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 2
Mine 1
Problem type not recorded 1
P1 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 1
P2 Flooding 1
P1 Flooding 1
Quarry 1
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Open Pit Mine 1
Quarry 1
P1 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 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.