This map displays mining-related operations and features, as well as data that documents current environmental (aquatic) conditions in the South Fork of Cherry River watershed in Greenbrier County, WV.Purpose:The map focuses on active mining operations and facilities in designated Critical Habitat for the endangered candy darter. Concerns have been raised that some mines may be contaminating waterways or otherwise not operating within the requirements of their permits, thus negatively impacting the endangered fish. The map includes water quality monitoring data that can be viewed via popup windows or charts.

Spatial data for The West Virginia Mine Wars: An American Labor Conflict in Appalachia StoryMap as updated in September 2023. This StoryMap was developed by the National Historic Landmarks (NHL) program and the National Capital Regional Office, National Park Service. This data was originally downloaded from the Classic StoryMaps version of the StoryMap and republished to exist independent of the Classic StoryMap during the update process.The corresponding NPS DataStore on Integrated Resource Management Applications (IRMA) reference for the source data is West Virginia Mine Wars: An American Labor Conflict in Appalachia StoryMap.The West Virginia Mine Wars: An American Labor Conflict in Appalachia StoryMap, developed by the National Historic Landmarks (NHL) program and the National Capital Regional Office, National Park Service covers the coal miners fight for employee rights. From 1912 to 1921, thousands of coal miners in the southern coalfields of West Virginia fought violently against coal company operators to secure their right to unionize and abolish the brutal mine guard system.The research content presented in this National Park Service StoryMap was prepared by Dr. Rachel Donaldson, a labor historian in association with the Organization of American Historians. Dr. Donaldson was a co-author for the National Historic Landmark study of the Jefferson County Courthouse. The original StoryMap was designed and organized by National Capital Region National Historic Landmark Program Intern Max Sickler in 2021. The updated StoryMap was created by Samantha Melvin in January 2024.For full details read the West Virginia Mine Wars series on NPS.gov. The images in this StoryMap are available on NPGallery in the West Virginia Mine Wars Story Map Album.

As described by ASTM D7780-12: This feature class contains polygons that depict the location of coal refuse disposal areas. They include, but are not limited to, slurry impoundments (including cross valley, diked, and incised impoundments), slurry cell structures, and coarse coal refuse structures. This dataset consists of coalmining related features as described by ASTM D7780-12, "Standard Practice for Geospatial Data for Representing Coal Mining Features". These data are gathered using automated processes from participating coalmining regulatory authorities, which are generally state government agencies. The data from the various sources are transformed into common schemas as described by the ASTM Standard above. The resultant feature classes represent seamless information covering the coal producing areas of the United States. Development of these data are ongoing and will become more complete as more cooperating regulatory authorities are added to the GeoMine system.

This web map is used in The West Virginia Mine Wars: An American Labor Conflict in Appalachia StoryMap, developed by the National Historic Landmarks (NHL) program and the National Capital Regional Office, National Park Service. The StoryMap covers the coal miners fight for employee rights. From 1912 to 1921, thousands of coal miners in the southern coalfields of West Virginia fought violently against coal company operators to secure their right to unionize and abolish the brutal mine guard system.The research content presented in this National Park Service StoryMap was prepared by Dr. Rachel Donaldson, a labor historian in association with the Organization of American Historians. Dr. Donaldson was a co-author for the National Historic Landmark study of the Jefferson County Courthouse. The original StoryMap was designed and organized by National Capital Region National Historic Landmark Program Intern Max Sickler in 2021. The updated StoryMap was created by Samantha Melvin in January 2024.For full details read the West Virginia Mine Wars series on NPS.gov. The images in this StoryMap are available on NPGallery in the West Virginia Mine Wars Story Map Album.

This map service, Mine Working Layers (WMDRGISC - 2020), describes abandoned mine workings near Thomas, WV. The data associated with this map service was (we believe) created Western Pocahontas Properties and received from the Western Maryland Regional GIS Center.Source and date:The known information on this source is limited. The linework in this feature collection was supposedly digitized by Western Pocahontas Properties, c. 2000 from paper maps of the mines. Initial requests to WPP for information about this data have not yet been acknowledged. The data was obtained from Western Maryland Regional GIS Center (Jason Litten, Co-Director) as a set of shapefiles. Accessed in October of 2020.Purpose:This data was created in order to show the various mine workings in this area and the locations of underground mine pools which, if breached by road construction, would cause significant subsidence hazards and pollutants of surface waters, respectively.Processing:ABRA created this layer by publishing the shapefiles to ArcGIS Online as a map service..Symbolization:The following symbolizations are how they appear in the Parsons to Davis online map provided by ABRA.Coal Barrier: gray polygonCoketon Mine Pool: translucent blue polygonKempton Mine Pool: translucent light blue polygonMetikki Mine Pool: opaque light purple polygonUndefined Mine Workings: dashed gray polylineMine Perimeter: black polyline

Purpose:This feature layer describes water quality sampling data performed at several operating coal mines in the South Fork of Cherry watershed, West Virginia.Source & Data:Data was downloaded from WV Department of Environmental Protection's ApplicationXtender online database and EPA's ECHO online database between January and April, 2023.There are five data sets here: Surface Water Monitoring Sites, which contains basic information about monitoring sites (name, lat/long, etc.) and NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites, which contains similar information about outfall discharges surrounding the active mines. Biological Assessment Stations (BAS) contain similar information for pre-project biological sampling. NOV Summary contains locations of Notices of Violation received by South Fork Coal Company from WV Department of Environmental Protection. The Quarterly Monitoring Reports table contains the sampling data for the Surface Water Monitoring Sites, which actually goes as far back as 2018 for some mines. Parameters of concern include iron, aluminum and selenium, among others.A relationship class between Surface Water Monitoring Sites and the Quarterly Monitoring Reports allows access to individual sample results.Processing:Notices of Violation were obtained from the WV DEP AppXtender database for Mining and Reclamation Article 3 (SMCRA) Permitting, and Mining and Reclamation NPDES Permitting. Violation data were entered into Excel and loaded into ArcGIS Pro as a CSV text file with Lat/Long coordinates for each Violation. The CSV file was converted to a point feature class.Water quality data were downloaded in PDF format from the WVDEP AppXtender website. Non-searchable PDFs were converted via Optical Character Recognition, so that data could be copied. Sample results were copied and pasted manually to Notepad++, and several columns were re-ordered. Data was grouped by sample station and sorted chronologically. Sample data, contained in the associated table (SW_QM_Reports) were linked back to the monitoring station locations using the Station_ID text field in a geodatabase relationship class.Water monitoring station locations were taken from published Drainage Maps and from water quality reports. A CSV table was created with station Lat/Long locations and loaded into ArcGIS Pro. It was then converted to a point feature class.Stream Crossings and Road Construction Areas were digitized as polygon feature classes from project Drainage and Progress maps that were converted to TIFF image format from PDF and georeferenced.The ArcGIS Pro map - South Fork Cherry River Water Quality, was published as a service definition to ArcGIS Online.Symbology:NOV Summary - dark blue, solid pointLost Flats Surface Water Monitoring Sites: Data Available - medium blue point, black outlineLost Flats Surface Water Monitoring Sites: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium blue outlineLost Flats NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites - orange point, black outlineBlue Knob Surface Water Monitoring Sites: Data Available - medium blue point, black outlineBlue Knob Surface Water Monitoring Sites: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium blue outlineBlue Knob NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites - orange point, black outlineBlue Knob Biological Assessment Stations: Data Available - medium green point, black outlineBlue Knob Biological Assessment Stations: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium green outlineRocky Run Surface Water Monitoring Sites: Data Available - medium blue point, black outlineRocky Run Surface Water Monitoring Sites: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium blue outlineRocky Run NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites - orange point, black outlineRocky Run Biological Assessment Stations: Data Available - medium green point, black outlineRocky Run Biological Assessment Stations: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium green outlineRocky Run Stream Crossings: turquoise blue polygon with red outlineRocky Run Haul Road Construction Areas: dark red (40% transparent) polygon with black outlineHaul Road No 2 Surface Water Monitoring Sites: Data Available - medium blue point, black outlineHaul Road No 2 Surface Water Monitoring Sites: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium blue outlineHaul Road No 2 NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites - orange point, black outline

This feature collection, Mine Working Layers (WMDRGISC - 2020), describes abandoned mine workings near Thomas, WV. The data associated with this feature collection is associated with Western Pocahontas Properties and the Western Maryland Regional GIS Center.Source and date:The known information on this source is limited. The linework in this feature collection was supposedly digitized by Western Pocahontas Properties, c. 2000 from paper maps of the mines. Initial requests to WPP for information about this data have not yet been acknowledged. The data was obtained from Western Maryland Regional GIS Center as a set of shapefiles. Accessed in October of 2020.Purpose:This data was created in order to show the various mine workings in this area and the locations of underground mine pools which, if breached by road construction, would cause significant subsidence hazards and pollutants of surface waters, respectively.Processing:ABRA created this layer by publishing the shapefiles to ArcGIS Online as a map service..Symbolization:The following symbolizations are how they appear in the Parsons to Davis online map provided by ABRA.Coal Barrier: gray polygonCoketon Mine Pool: translucent blue polygonKempton Mine Pool: translucent light blue polygonMetikki Mine Pool: opaque light purple polygonUndefined Mine Workings: dashed gray polylineMine Perimeter: black polyline