Mine Index Number: 1019
Company Name:
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Cottonwood Coal Company
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Mine Name:
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Cottonwood No. 1 Mine
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Start Date:
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1996
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End Date:
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1997
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Type of Mine:
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Surface
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Total acres shown:
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None
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Acres after map date:
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13
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
Type
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County
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Township-Range
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Section
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Part Section
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Tipple / pit
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Williamson
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8S 2E
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33
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SW NE
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Pit
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Williamson
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9S 2E
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4
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SW NE
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Geology
Springfield
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70
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4.0
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Surface
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Geological Problems Reported
Production
Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
Nelson, Catalog of Coal Mines
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2003
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(text only)
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1:24000 [2]
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Secondary source
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Coal Section files, 10-9-3
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2003
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.
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Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Williamson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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W.J. Nelson (ISGS), Catalog of Coal Mines in Williamson County - Mine locations.
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Aerial photograph enlargement and DMM permit outline, Coal Section files 10-9-3 - Mine location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Coal Section files: 10-9-3
Map Date: 2003
Coal Co.: Cottonwood Coal Company
Mine Name: Cottonwood No. 1 Mine
Full Res Download
Coal Section files: 10-9-3
Map Date: 10-1-2002
Coal Co.: Cottonwood Coal Company
Mine Name: Cottonwood No. 1 Mine
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ This is also the location of a mine known as Gordon & Price Coal Company, Pace No. 1 Mine that operated around 1999 and re-mined areas surface-mined by earlier operators.
- ↑ Point plotted onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map and digitized.