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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Allamakee County, Iowa

Allamakee County, Iowa has 66 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1966–1983. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Allamakee 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)
66
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1966–1983 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    66 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. Brazell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300320
    Abandoned
  2. Burke Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301550
    Abandoned
  3. Churchtown Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bresnahan Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300257
    Abandoned
  4. Dee Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301866
    Abandoned
  5. Green Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301990
    Abandoned
  6. Hammell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301858
    Abandoned
  7. Hammell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301959
    Abandoned
  8. Hanover Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bresnahan Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300255
    Abandoned
  9. Landsgaard Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301439
    Abandoned
  10. Lange Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301587
    Abandoned
  11. Livingood Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1300157
    Abandoned
  12. Lonning Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301434
    Abandoned
  13. Ludlow Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bresnahan Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300256
    Abandoned
  14. Mc Cabe Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300321
    Abandoned
  15. Mohs Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301797
    Abandoned
  16. Morken Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300388
    Abandoned
  17. Portable Crusher I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1302105
    Abandoned
  18. Portable Rock Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bresnahan Construction Company · MSHA ID 1302137
    Abandoned
  19. Postville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kuhlman Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300087
    Abandoned
  20. Postville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301607
    Abandoned
  21. Regan Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300867
    Abandoned
  22. Riehm
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riehm Construction Co · MSHA ID 1302396
    Abandoned
  23. Riehms Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301831
    Abandoned
  24. Rossville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300385
    Abandoned
  25. Rud Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301269
    Abandoned
  26. Swenson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301964
    Abandoned
  27. West Ridge Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301107
    Abandoned
  28. Wexford Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooney Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300387
    Abandoned

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

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Quarry 50
Gravel Pit 10
Quarry 5
Sand Pit 1
Other counties in IowaAll counties →
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.