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Abandoned mines in Windham County, Connecticut

Windham County, Connecticut has no mine or prospect features in the USGS topographic-map compilation. MSHA's register carries 40 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Windham County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
0
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
40
0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned40 on register
  1. 57 Brunswick Ave
    Surface metal/non-metal · Julian Development LLC · MSHA ID 0600777
    Abandoned
  2. 94 Sterling Rd Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Collelo Excavation · MSHA ID 0600781
    Abandoned
  3. ATLANTIC RECYCLING INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Atlantic Recycling Inc · MSHA ID 0600651
    Abandoned
  4. Bawza Stone LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bawza Stone LLC · MSHA ID 0600732
    Abandoned
  5. Butts Bridge Road Gravel Bank
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Allyn Trucking · MSHA ID 0600610
    Abandoned
  6. Connecticut Flatstone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Connecticut Flatstone Company · MSHA ID 0600501
    Abandoned
  7. Corson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & R Trucking and Excavation LLC · MSHA ID 0600782
    Abandoned
  8. Extec #61
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bellavance Trucking & Exc · MSHA ID 0600706
    Abandoned
  9. Fab Tec
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon · MSHA ID 0600715
    Abandoned
  10. GARVEY SAND & GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Garvey Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0600444
    Abandoned
  11. Hart'S Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Canton Village Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0600590
    Abandoned
  12. Haynes Aggregates-Sterling LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Haynes Materials Company · MSHA ID 0600703
    Abandoned
  13. Hughes Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arthur L Hughes · MSHA ID 0600502
    Abandoned
  14. Janeczek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Janeczek General Contractors · MSHA ID 0600451
    Abandoned
  15. Kappys Gravel Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kappys Gravel · MSHA ID 0600449
    Abandoned
  16. KING TRUCKING CO. INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · King Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 0600424
    Abandoned
  17. Knight & Sons Construction, Corp.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knight & Sons Construction, Corp. · MSHA ID 0600743
    Abandoned
  18. Kolberg Screener #66
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bellavance Trucking & Exc · MSHA ID 0600707
    Abandoned
  19. Latham Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · William H Latham · MSHA ID 0600467
    Abandoned
  20. Miller Brothers Moving & Storage
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller Brothers Moving & Storage · MSHA ID 0600601
    Abandoned
  21. MILLER ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ri-Che · MSHA ID 0600667
    Abandoned
  22. Niemann Farm Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Niemann Farm Gravel · MSHA ID 0600614
    Abandoned
  23. Northeast Sand & Gravel Products LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Sand & Gravel Products LLC · MSHA ID 0600819
    Abandoned
  24. Pit 1 Plainfield Pike
    Surface metal/non-metal · Plainfield Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 0600818
    Abandoned
  25. Plant #3 - Rukstela Road, Brooklyn
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rawson Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 0600757
    Abandoned
  26. PLANT 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · RAWSON MATERIALS · MSHA ID 0600629
    Abandoned
  27. Portable #62
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bellavance Trucking & Exc · MSHA ID 0600701
    Abandoned
  28. PORTABLE UNIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Patriot Hauling · MSHA ID 0600693
    Abandoned
  29. Power Screen Warrior
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon Connecticut, Inc. · MSHA ID 0600723
    Abandoned
  30. R B Marriott And Sons
    Surface metal/non-metal · R B Marriott & Sons · MSHA ID 0600010
    Abandoned
  31. Rawson Materials Plant #10
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rawson Materials · MSHA ID 0600632
    Abandoned
  32. Riverview Enterprises
    Surface metal/non-metal · DWC Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 0600674
    Abandoned
  33. Route 205 Plant And Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clifford B Green & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0600591
    Abandoned
  34. Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kasper Construction · MSHA ID 0600628
    Abandoned
  35. Snake Meadow Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J R Vinagro Corporation · MSHA ID 0600641
    Abandoned
  36. South Windham Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Windham Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0600419
    Abandoned
  37. STERLING PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richmond Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0600691
    Abandoned
  38. Sterling Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charles J Precourt & Son Inc · MSHA ID 0600649
    Abandoned
  39. Strouse Brothers Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Strouse Brothers · MSHA ID 0600008
    Abandoned
  40. Wauregan Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon Connecticut Inc · MSHA ID 0600015
    Abandoned

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
    597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
  2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
    States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
  3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
    One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
  4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
    Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
  5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
    Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
  6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
    Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
  7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
    The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
  8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
    Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.