Mine Index Number: 3888
| Company Name:
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Middle Fork Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Middle Fork No. 2 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1939
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End Date:
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1948
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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[1]
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| Acres after map date:
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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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| Main slope
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Vermilion
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20N 12W
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20
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NW SE SE
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Geology
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
| ISGS mine notes (G. M. Wilson)
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1945
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(text only)
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1:24000 [3]
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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, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Vermilion County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, slope location, seam, depth, thickness.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Production indicates approximately 1 to 2acres were mined. This mine is contiguous to a much larger (23-acre) general area of mining from the Federal Land Bank Report for Vermilion County.
- ↑ Also known as Fletcher’s Middle Fork Mine.
- ↑ The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
