Abandoned mines in Taylor County, West Virginia

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   78 25.6%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   83 27.2%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   1 0.3%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   15 4.9%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   21 6.9%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   107 35.1%

…and 1 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.

1. #1

   Surface coal · Double Diamond Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4606645
   Abandoned and Sealed 1988-07-30
2. A And A No 1

   Surface coal · A & A Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606730
   Abandoned 1986-11-03
3. Capitol Surface

   Surface coal · Nationwide Fuel Inc · MSHA ID 4605672
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
4. Carbona Mine

   Surface coal · Scjl Co-Leasing Company Inc · MSHA ID 4607758
   Abandoned 1990-12-05
5. Colt Tipple

   Facility coal · Cheyenne Sales Company Inc · MSHA ID 4602837
   Abandoned 1982-07-22
6. Genito Farm

   Surface coal · Swift Creek Development Inc · MSHA ID 4608273
   Abandoned 1995-01-13
7. Harbert Surface - Pee Wee Knob

   Surface coal · Imperial Corp · MSHA ID 4604613
   Abandoned 1982-01-20
8. Huff Coal Co Mine

   Surface coal · Huff Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606321
   Abandoned 1983-03-15
9. Jerry Run Mine

   Surface coal · Thompson Coal & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4602557
   Abandoned 1985-03-20
10. Keg No 1

    Underground coal · Srj Energy Inc · MSHA ID 4606204
    Abandoned and Sealed 1982-11-15
11. Marseille No 1 Tipple

    Facility coal · P & D Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604512
    Abandoned 1978-05-23
12. Mine #1

    Surface coal · Don'S Dozer Rental Inc · MSHA ID 4607222
    Abandoned 1989-03-06
13. Mine #1

    Underground coal · Mystic Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4607969
    Abandoned and Sealed 2005-07-28
14. Mine #3

    Surface coal · Smith Construction · MSHA ID 4607697
    Abandoned 1990-08-09
15. Mine No 1

    Surface coal · B & D Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606300
    Abandoned 1995-06-26
16. No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Pine Tree Corp · MSHA ID 4601128
    Abandoned 1978-03-13
17. No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Sinsel Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602692
    Abandoned 1972-06-14
18. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · West Virginia Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 4604772
    Abandoned 1979-12-07
19. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Treyco Inc · MSHA ID 4605759
    Abandoned 1980-05-15
20. No 1 Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Buck Run Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602556
    Abandoned 1973-01-26
21. No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · Thompson Coal & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4603219
    Abandoned 1973-01-26
22. No 8 Strip

    Surface coal · Mountaineer Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4604690
    Abandoned 1977-07-11
23. Patriot Mining Company Inc

    Surface coal · Patriot Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4608212
    Abandoned and Sealed 1993-09-14
24. Plumbers No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · P & T Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604052
    Abandoned 1980-02-21
25. Pruntytown Job

    Surface coal · Mangus Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4606214
    Abandoned 1982-02-12
26. Pruntytown Mine

    Surface coal · 92 Coal Corp · MSHA ID 4606931
    Abandoned 1987-01-16
27. Rager Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Rebekah Coal Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 4609290
    Abandoned 2012-10-23
28. Rager Surface Mine

    Surface coal · Rebekah Coal Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 4609407
    Abandoned 2014-12-30
29. Red Stone Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Rail & River Mining Company · MSHA ID 4602769
    Abandoned 1972-06-14
30. Shana #1

    Facility coal · Shana Coal Inc · MSHA ID 4606121
    Abandoned 2012-10-23
31. Smith Job

    Surface coal · La Rosa Fuel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4607556
    Abandoned and Sealed 1992-01-13
32. Smith Mine

    Surface coal · Smith Construction · MSHA ID 4607249
    Abandoned 1995-10-26
33. Smith No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Smith Construction · MSHA ID 4605636
    Abandoned 1981-09-17
34. T V M Mine #1

    Surface coal · Bjp Inc · MSHA ID 4607842
    Abandoned and Sealed 1994-04-25
35. Taylor #1 Strip

    Surface coal · Coaltrain Corp · MSHA ID 4607073
    Abandoned 1993-04-26
36. Thomas Strip

    Surface coal · Falco Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606567
    Abandoned 1985-03-20
37. Tom Patterson Strip

    Surface coal · Tom Patterson Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606945
    Abandoned and Sealed 1988-10-04
38. Tucker Run Mine

    Surface coal · Shelby Run Mining Company · MSHA ID 4609466
    Abandoned 2014-04-18
39. Turkey Run No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Nada Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601140
    Abandoned 1974-10-21
40. W & S No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · W & S Inc · MSHA ID 4605666
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
41. Webster No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Cheyenne Development Company Inc · MSHA ID 4604150
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
42. Williams Farm

    Surface coal · Williams Dozer Service Inc · MSHA ID 4607294
    Abandoned 1991-09-13
43. Williams No 1

    Surface coal · Williams Dozer Service Inc · MSHA ID 4606394
    Abandoned 1982-02-12

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• McDowell County 1,279
• Kanawha County 1,138
• Fayette County 1,082
• Preston County 877
• Monongalia County 875
• Raleigh County 812
• Logan County 796
• Harrison County 670
• Wyoming County 623
• Boone County 586
• Mingo County 474
• Nicholas County 455

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.