Some Books in our Library
- Carrying Coal to Columbus byCall Number: Alden 7th TN805.O3 M49 2017xPublication Date: 2017"As early as 1755, explorers found coal deposits in Ohio's Hocking Valley. The industry that followed created towns and canals and established a new way of life. The first shipment of coal rolled in to Columbus in 1830 and has continued ever since. In 1890, the United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus. Lorenzo D. Poston became the first of the Hocking Valley coal barons, and by the start of the twentieth century, at least fifty thousand coal miners and their families lived and worked in Athens, Hocking and Perry Counties." -- From cover
- Thesis: Environmental justice in Appalachia [electronic resource] : a comprehensive study of a proposed strip mine in Bern Township, Ohio / Mary A. Leciejewski byCall Number: ebookPublication Date: 2012Subject Environmental justice -- Ohio -- Bern (Athens County : Township)
Strip mining -- Ohio -- Bern (Athens County : Township)
Environmental permits -- Ohio -- Bern (Athens County : Township)
Alt Author Ohio University. OUM Theses. Geography
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center - Abandoned underground coal mines, Athens County [list] / data compiled by Regional Geology Section, Ohio Division of Geological Survey byCall Number: Gov docs ONR 84.2:Co 3x c.2Publication Date: 1987Abandoned coal mines -- Ohio -- Athens County
Coal mines and mining -- Ohio -- Athens County
Mines and mineral resources -- Ohio -- Athens County
Lots of Mining Data
The Ohio DNR Division of Geological Survey has maps and data of
- Ohio mines
- Oil & gas wells
- Karst (a topography important for petroleum geology)
- Earthquakes
- Lake Erie Coastal Erosion
As well as dozens of reports and publications.
There’s lots more information on the ohiodnr.gov website about mining, including the ODNR Division of Mineral Resources’ “Citizen Resources” which includes a short history of coal in Ohio.
https://www.msha.gov/mine-data-retrieval-system
The US Department of Labor has a Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) that publishes a Mine Data Retrieval system. If you scroll down you can search by mine name, state and county, contractor, controller and operator and get results for accidents, inspections, violations, employment and production and more.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has its own “COAL DATA BROWSER” that shows data from the Annual Coal Report (downloadable in Excel format.) They also provide national data on petroleum, natural gas, renewables, nuclear and energy efficiently and consumption.
https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/mineral-resources
The American Geosciences Institute is a professional organization of geoscientists and their website has FAQs about national mineral resources including this rundown of US coal production.
The USGS has lots of national maps in their Mineral Resources Online Spatial Data page. You can search for Ohio but may need to know something about geology.
https://ohiomemory.org/digital/
Ohio Memory is a huge online digital collection that includes lots if visual primary resources. Coal subjects include:
- Coal
- Coal miners
- Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region--History
- Coal mines and mining--Economic aspects--Ohio
- Coal mines and mining--Electric equipment
- Coal mines and mining--United States
- Coal mining
- Coal-mining machinery
DPLA will provide an even wider search scope.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
There are 119,888 search results for “mining” in Ohio in this massive database of US newspapers.
Data.gov is an aggregator for the U.S. Government’s open data, which includes some of the above and much more.
(Special thanks to Nicholas Ver Steegh for this list)