Bell County, Kentucky Coal Camps

Compiled from Dodrill's 10,000 Coal Company Stores

COMPANY	COMMUNITY	COUNTY	YEARS OF OPERATION	EMPLOYEES
Continental Coal Corporation	Arjay	Bell	1912-1915	450
Federal Coal Company	Arjay	Bell	1916-1923	156
Fox Ridge Mining Company, Inc.	Arjay	Bell	1943-1958	120
Landrum Coal Company	Arjay	Bell	1921-1924	60
New Arjay Coal Company	Arjay	Bell	1925-1929	60
Old Straight Creek Coal Corporation	Arjay	Bell	1925-1933	120
Roth Coal Company	Arjay	Bell	1921-1924	80
Straight Creek Coal, Inc.	Arjay	Bell	1935-1940	75
Southern Mining Company	Balkan	Bell	1914-1955	370
Virginia Harlan Coal Corporation	Balkan	Bell	1931-1934	95
Virginia Harlan Coal Corporation	Balkan	Bell	1923-1924	95
Whipple Coals, Inc.	Balkan	Bell	1942-1953	80
Bell Jellico Coal Company	Bell Jellico	Bell	1907-1908	150
Dean Branch Coal Company	Bell Jellico	Bell	1919-1923	20
New Bell Jellico Coal Company	Bell Jellico	Bell	1909-1919	150
Victor Coal Mining Company	Besson	Bell	1925-1932	75
Black Star Coal Company, Inc.	Blackmont	Bell	1931-1940	880
Southern Mining Company	Blacksnake	Bell	1925-1926	15
Bailey Coal Company	Blanche	Bell	1917-1929	33
Big Jim Coal Company	Blanche	Bell	1940-1952	225
New Straight Creek Company Mine	Blanche	Bell	1912-1914	60
Bellman Coal Company	Bosworth	Bell	1922-1926	50
East Point Coal Company	Bosworth	Bell	1917-1922	20
Log Mountain Coal Company	Bosworth	Bell	1924-1932	330
Winona Coal & Coke Company	Bosworth	Bell	1921-1924	150
Yellow Creek Coal Company	Bosworth	Bell	1905-1923	250
Black Mountain Coal Company	Burchfield	Bell	1914-1915	20
Kentucky Cardinal Coal Corporation	Burchfield	Bell	1919-1920	150
Pucketts Creek Coal Company	Burchfield	Bell	1915-1919	50
Asher Coal Mining Company	Bushan	Bell	1910-1911	150
Creech Mining Company	Callaway	Bell	1919-1921	35
Blue Star Coal Company	Calloway	Bell	1926-1930	60
Kentucky Cardinal Coal Company	Cardinal	Bell	1929-1932	150
Kentucky Cardinal Coal Corporation	Cardinal	Bell	1933-1958	150
Vinson-Kolb Coal Company	Cargo	Bell	1921-1923	40
Central Coal Company	Cary	Bell	1909-1910	50
Continental Coal Corporation	Cary	Bell	1911-1915	650
Federal Coal Company	Cary	Bell	1916-1923	147
Left Fork Coal Company	Cary	Bell	1909-1910	100
Old Straight Creek Coal Corporation	Cary	Bell	1925-1933	220
Straight Creek Coal Mining Company	Cary	Bell	1907-1911	200
Straight Creek Coal, Inc.	Cary	Bell	1935-1940	150
Caney Creek Coal & Coke Company	Chenoa	Bell	1908-1910	60
Chenoa-Hignite Coal Company	Chenoa	Bell	1914-1931	90
Chenoa Coal Company	Chenoa	Bell	1908-1909	40
Clear Creek Coal Company	Chenoa	Bell	1908-1910	80
Kelly Coal Company	Chenoa	Bell	1909-1910	51
Log Mountain Coal Company	Chenoa	Bell	1911-1913	50
Crane Creek Coal Company	Colmar	Bell	1917-1923	50
Southern Mining Company	Colmar	Bell	1914-1955	155
Cairns Coal Company	Davisburg	Bell	1933-1934	72
Log Mountain Coal Company	Davisburg	Bell	1924-1932	113
Asher Coal Mining Company	Dorothy	Bell	1910-1911	150
Excelsior Coal Mining Company	Excelsior	Bell	1904-1906	175
Excelsior Coal & Mining Company	Excelsior	Bell	1907-1907	125
Low Ash Coal Company	Excelsior	Bell	1914-1914	20
Mary Moore Mines, Inc.	Excelsior	Bell	1910-1913	100
Fern Lake Mining Company	Fern Lake	Bell	1908-1909	50
Ferndale Coal Company	Ferndale	Bell	1909-1920	30
J.C. Knuckles & Wife Mine	Ferndale	Bell	1908-1908	20
Coleman Fuel Company, Inc.	Field	Bell	1940-1942	100
Kentucky Ridge Coal Company	Field	Bell	1917-1924	70
Kentucky Ridge Coal Company	Field	Bell	1938-1958	200
Clear Fork Coal Company, Inc.	Fonde	Bell	1924-1957	289
Clear Fork Coal & Coke Company	Fonde	Bell	1912-1923	250
Bell County Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1909-1909	70
Black Bear Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1905-1906	70
Black Raven Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1904-1909	150
East Jellico Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1907-1917	200
Edward Blake Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1907-1909	80
Elk Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1907-1907	56
Highland Rim Mining Company	Fourmile	Bell	1905-1908	150
Indian Creek Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1922-1923	100
J B Blue Gem Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1923-1924	60
J B Straight Creek Mining Company	Fourmile	Bell	1918-1925	100
Joseph Manning Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1917-1919	40
Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1942-1949	250
Lewis & Campbell Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	Before 1903	?
Magnet Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1914-1917	102
New Bell Jellico Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1909-1913	50
Red Ash Straight Creek, Inc.	Fourmile	Bell	1926-1926	65
Utility Gas Coal Company	Fourmile	Bell	1917-1923	50
Wallins Creek Collieries Company	Fourmile	Bell	1924-1925	100
Coleman Mining Company, Inc.	Fox Ridge	Bell	1907-1929	150
Straight Creek Coal & Coke Company	Gary	Bell	1907-1911	200
Bellman Coal Company	Gravity	Bell	1918-1922	50
Bennetts Fork Coal Mining Company	Gravity	Bell	1919-1923	75
Columbia Coal Company	Gravity	Bell	1907-1913	125
Gravity Coal Mining Company	Gravity	Bell	1917-1923	20
Winona Coal & Coke Company	Gravity	Bell	1906-1926	150
Log Mountain Coal Company	Harrison	Bell	1914-1932	81
Kentucky River Coal Mining Company	Heiner	Bell	1918-1928	200
Continental Coal Corporation	Heyburn	Bell	1914-1915	40
Straight Creek Fuel Company	Heyburn	Bell	1926-1926	75
Hosman Coal Company	Hosman	Bell	1925-1930	75
J B Blue Gem Coal Company	Hosman	Bell	1917-1919	85
Long Ridge Coal Company	Hulen	Bell	1919-1934	40
New Long Ridge Coal Company,Inc.	Hulen	Bell	1942-1949	60
Bastin Coal Company	Idamay	Bell	1911-1913	38
Big Hill Coal Company	Idamay	Bell	1909-1910	250
Morgan Mining Company	Iverdale	Bell	1924-1924	50
Pioneer Coal Company	Kettle Island	Bell	1912-1949	300
Bell Coal Company	Little Creek	Bell	1940-1953	150
Crystal Coal Company	Logmont	Bell	1915-1926	75
Luke & Drummond Coal Company	Logmont	Bell	1909-1911	50
Sagamore Coal Company	Logmont	Bell	1905-1914	100
Mathel Coal Company	Mathel	Bell	1919-1925	70
Tan Yard Hill Coal Company	Mathel	Bell	1917-1919	20
Low Ash Mining Company	Meldrum	Bell	1915-1920	125
Appalachian Washed Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1912-1913	20
Atlas Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1931-1952	200
Bellman Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1922-1926	80
Bennetts Fork Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1903-1904	50
Better Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	Before 1903	?
Brickdale Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1910-1910	20
Bryson Mountain Coal & Coke Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1904-1907	150
Columbia Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1907-1913	125
East Point Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1923-1929	20
Excelsior Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1910-1910	75
Flat Wood Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1908-1909	18
Fox Ridge Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1905-1909	400
Garmeda Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1941-1950	275
Hignite Coal Mining Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1914-1923	100
Low Ash Mining Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1921-1929	185
Luke & Drummond Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1905-1913	100
Mary Moore Mines, Inc.	Middlesboro	Bell	1910-1913	50
Mingo Coal & Coke Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1907-1907	200
Nicholson Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1907-1909	300
Nicholson Coal Mining Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1910-1911	150
Premier Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1927-1942	175
Premier Jellico Coal Corporation	Middlesboro	Bell	1943-1953	141
Reliance Coal & Coke Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1903-1925	250
S & S Coal	Middlesboro	Bell	1921-1930	16
S & S Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1922-1922	16
Smith & Brashear Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1919-1923	10
Sterling Coal & Coke Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1907-1910	300
Turner Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1908-1910	16
Wiciona Coal & Coke Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1905-1905	100
Willhor Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1921-1923	30
Winona Coal & Coke Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1906-1909	50
W.E. Gunn Company Mine	Middlesboro	Bell	1921-1932	80
Yellow Creek Coal Company	Middlesboro	Bell	1905-1906	100
Gunn Coal Mining Company	Murtea	Bell	1932-1939	80
Nicholson Coal Company	Nicholson	Bell	1907-1909	100
C & C Coal Company	Nugym	Bell	1941-1958	150
Harlan Wallins Coal Corporation, Inc.	Oleika	Bell	1932-1935	150
Wallins Creek Collieries Company	Oleika	Bell	1924-1924	150
Big Hill Coal Company	Pineville	Bell	1905-1908	250
Blue Ridge Coal Company	Pineville	Bell	1917-1923	40
Dean Coals, Inc.	Pineville	Bell	1938-1949	65
Ferndale Mining Company	Pineville	Bell	1925-1925	20
Fox Ridge Fuel Company	Pineville	Bell	1941-1942	78
Layman-Callaway Coal Company	Pineville	Bell	1927-1930	40
Lewis Coal Company	Pineville	Bell	1917-1926	18
National Coal & Iron Company	Pineville	Bell	1905-1906	200
Rocky Branch Coal Company	Pineville	Bell	1919-1928	30
Straight Creek Coal Mining Company	Pineville	Bell	1907-1911	200
Straight Creek Coal Mining Company	Pineville	Bell	1908-1911	200
Straight Creek Coal Mining Company	Pineville	Bell	1907-1911	200
Straight Creek Coal & Coke Company	Pineville	Bell	1907-1911	400
Wallsend Coal Company	Pineville	Bell	1923-1934	250
Wallsend Coal & Coke Company	Pineville	Bell	1909-1910	175
Wallsend Mining Company	Pineville	Bell	1923-1924	60
Atlas Coal Mining Company	Ralston	Bell	1916-1926	80
Pinnacle Coal Mining Company	Ralston	Bell	1916-1924	75
Stony Fork Coal Company	Ralston	Bell	1906-1915	120
Coleman Fuel Company, Inc.	Redbird	Bell	1940-1942	100
Continental Coal Corporation	Rim	Bell	1909-1913	500
Indian Creek Coal Company	Rim	Bell	1914-1920	160
Sagamore Coal Company	Sagamore	Bell	1912-1914	25
Climax Coal Company	Shamrock	Bell	1914-1929	165
Edgewood Consolidated Coal Company	Shamrock	Bell	1910-1911	200
Hawley Coal Company	Shamrock	Bell	1919-1930	60
Hignite Coal Mining Company	Shamrock	Bell	1910-1913	75
Log Mountain Coal Company	Shamrock	Bell	1924-1932	122
Long Branch Coal Company, Inc.	Shamrock	Bell	1919-1924	75
Long Ridge Coal Company	Shamrock	Bell	1921-1921	20
Monarch Coal & Coke Company	Shamrock	Bell	1911-1913	125
Buffalo Coal Company	Sidney	Bell	1940-1945	70
Stony Fork Coal Company	Stony Fork	Bell	1908-1913	30
Barkers Straight Creek Coal Mining Co.	Straight Creek	Bell	1936-1939	125
Continental Coal Corporation	Straight Creek	Bell	1911-1915	350
Federal Coal Company	Straight Creek	Bell	1916-1923	160
Liberty Coal & Coke Company	Straight Creek	Bell	1919-1935	200
National Coal & Iron Company	Straight Creek	Bell	1905-1906	600
Straight Creek Coal & Coke Company	Straight Creek	Bell	1907-1911	200
Southern Mining Company	Tejay	Bell	1914-1955	200
Boone Jellico Coal Company	Tinsley	Bell	1924-1932	100
Commodore-Jellico Coal Company	Tinsley	Bell	1926-1928	125
Commodore-Jellico Mining Company	Tinsley	Bell	1928-1935	125
Dean Branch Coal Company	Tinsley	Bell	1931-1937	110
Elk Coal Company	Tinsley	Bell	1912-1913	30
Greasy Creek Coal Company	Tinsley	Bell	1914-1925	100
Harlan Industrial Collieries Company	Tinsley	Bell	1936-1944	125
Jaybee Jellico Coal Company	Tinsley	Bell	1917-1925	150
New East Jellico Coal Company	Tinsley	Bell	1945-1949	40
Pine Ridge Coal Mining Company	Tinsley	Bell	1920-1922	100
Varilla Coal Corporation	Varilla	Bell	1923-1926	200
Varilla Mining Company	Varilla	Bell	1917-1921	25
Continental Coal Corporation	Wallsend	Bell	1912-1915	200
Engine Coal & Coke Company	Wallsend	Bell	1936-1941	50
Pineville Coal Company	Wallsend	Bell	1903-1904	300
Wallsend Coal Company	Wallsend	Bell	1906-1908	200
Wallsend Coal & Coke Company	Wallsend	Bell	1905-1905	400