Mine Index 3271 Blue Bird Coal Company, Blue Bird No. 2 Mine

Mine Index Number: 3271

Company Name:	Blue Bird Coal Company
Mine Name:	Blue Bird No. 2 Mine
Start Date:	Unknown	End Date:	Unknown
Type of Mine:	Surface
Total acres shown:	45
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Pit

Saline

9S 5E

34

SE

Geology

		Thickness (ft)
Seam	Depth (ft)	Min	Max	Ave	Mining Method

Springfield

5.0

Surface

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Blue Bird Coal Company (add)	Blue Bird No. 2No production was listed under this name in the annual Coal Reports. The production for this surface mine may have been reported under other surface mines of this company (No. 1 is mine index 610, No. 4 is mine index 3267, No. 5 is mine index 4206) or the coal may have been shipped from the tipple for the Blue Bird No. 6 (underground) Mine (mine index 3263). (add)

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

ISGS field notes (H. R. Wanless)

8-19-1932

(text only)

1:24000The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Saline County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

Mine notes (Saline County) - Mine type, pit location, mining method.

ISGS field notes (Saline County) - Pit location, seam, thickness, mining method.