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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Teton County, Wyoming

Teton County, Wyoming has 57 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1996, including 5 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 11 prospect pits; 4 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 19 problems in the county, 9 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Teton 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)
57
Mine openings
5
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
9
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
4 features carry a name11 prospect pits25 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1996 19 OSMRE problems, 10 reclaimed 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
    5 6.6%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    11 14.5%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    3 3.9%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    38 50.0%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    7 9.2%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    12 15.8%
Named features on the maps4 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Animal Pit Open Pit Mine or Quarry
Jackson Mine Adit
Lucky Lady Mine Open Pit Mine
Lucky Lady Mine Prospect Pit

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 problems19 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Lonestar Pit TETN1025 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Lonestar Pit TETN1025 P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Lonestar Pit TETN1025 P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Natural Bridge Quarry TETN1024 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Natural Bridge Quarry TETN1024 P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Park1032 P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Snake River Gravel Pit P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Snake River Gravel Pit P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Snake River Gravel Pit P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Snake River Gravel Pit P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Tetn0007 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Tetn0007 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Tetn0008 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Tetn0008 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Tetn0011 P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Tetn0011 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Tetn0011 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Tetn1026 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Tetn1026 P3 Pits Reclamation Pending

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 Abandoned20 on register
  1. Black Rock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801149
    Abandoned
  2. BURGGRAF PORTABLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burggraf Construction Company · MSHA ID 4801413
    Abandoned
  3. Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801104
    Abandoned
  4. Crusher #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801410
    Abandoned
  5. Crusher No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4800271
    Abandoned
  6. Fox Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U & I Inc · MSHA ID 4800021
    Abandoned
  7. Gros Ventre Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4800976
    Abandoned
  8. Rental Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · CM Owen Construction · MSHA ID 4801777
    Abandoned
  9. RIVER SPRINGS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Owen Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 4801536
    Abandoned
  10. ROSS PLATEAU
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ross Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 4801580
    Abandoned
  11. RST EXCAVATION
    Surface metal/non-metal · RST Excavation · MSHA ID 4801544
    Abandoned
  12. Sand & Gravel Operations
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoffbuhr Ready Mix · MSHA ID 4800278
    Abandoned
  13. Screening Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801435
    Abandoned
  14. Screening Plant No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801436
    Abandoned
  15. Small Crusher #1330
    Surface metal/non-metal · Evans Construction Company · MSHA ID 4801547
    Abandoned
  16. Soest Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801092
    Abandoned
  17. South Park School Section Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801265
    Abandoned
  18. South Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilson Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4800657
    Abandoned
  19. SPRING GULCH OPERATION
    Facility metal/non-metal · R E Hansen Excavating & Grading · MSHA ID 4801581
    Abandoned
  20. Walton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark'S Ready-Mix & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4801032
    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 26
Prospect Pit 11
Gravel Pit 9
P3 Pits 8
Adit 5
P3 Spoil Area 4
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 3
Open Pit Mine 2
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 2
Quarry 1
Quarry 1
P3 Haul Road 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Quarry - Rock 1
P3 Gobs 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.