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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Jackson County, Iowa

Jackson County, Iowa has 43 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1962–1980. 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 Jackson 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)
43
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1962–1980 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    4 9.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    39 90.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. Andrew Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301363
    Abandoned
  2. Arensdorf Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301529
    Abandoned
  3. Baldwin Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301996
    Abandoned
  4. Bellevue Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bellevue Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1300649
    Abandoned
  5. Bellevue Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bellevue Sand & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 1302042
    Abandoned
  6. Bellevue Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301380
    Abandoned
  7. Bellevue Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301832
    Abandoned
  8. Cloos And Sons Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cloos & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1300013
    Abandoned
  9. Franks Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301925
    Abandoned
  10. G & W Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · G & W Stone Products Company · MSHA ID 1301618
    Abandoned
  11. Iron Hill Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301378
    Abandoned
  12. Joinerville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301972
    Abandoned
  13. Kilburg Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301756
    Abandoned
  14. La Motte Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301627
    Abandoned
  15. Maquoketa Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W G Block Company Inc · MSHA ID 1301940
    Abandoned
  16. Maquoketa Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1300417
    Abandoned
  17. Mo-Keta Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Becker & Becker Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1301719
    Abandoned
  18. Otter Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301381
    Abandoned
  19. Pataska Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301871
    Abandoned
  20. Portable Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Preston Ready Mix Corp · MSHA ID 1302386
    Abandoned
  21. Portable Wash Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Preston Ready Mix Corp. · MSHA ID 1302486
    Abandoned
  22. Portable Wash Plant Dept. 471
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries, Inc. · MSHA ID 1302443
    Abandoned
  23. Portable Washplant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bellevue Sand & Gravel Co. · MSHA ID 1302425
    Abandoned
  24. Preston Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1300219
    Abandoned
  25. Rowan Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301379
    Abandoned
  26. Springbrook Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301982
    Abandoned
  27. Springbrook-Lundin Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301920
    Abandoned
  28. Turner Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1301278
    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 31
Gravel Pit 5
Disturbed Surface - Pit 4
Gravel Pit 2
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.