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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Jones County, Iowa

Jones County, Iowa has 68 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1965–1980. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Jones 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)
68
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1965–1980 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    68 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned26 on register
  1. Anamosa Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1300254
    Abandoned
  2. Anamosa Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301402
    Abandoned
  3. Barnes Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1300235
    Abandoned
  4. Behrends Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1300174
    Abandoned
  5. Burda Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301372
    Abandoned
  6. Canton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301371
    Abandoned
  7. Clement Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dyersville Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 1300764
    Abandoned
  8. Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boomerang Corp · MSHA ID 1302502
    Abandoned
  9. Eganhouse Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eganhouse Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1300671
    Abandoned
  10. Finn Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301366
    Abandoned
  11. Finn Sand And Gravel Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301376
    Abandoned
  12. Jensen Sand And Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jensen Ready-Mix · MSHA ID 1300700
    Abandoned
  13. Knapp Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301374
    Abandoned
  14. Kula Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301375
    Abandoned
  15. Mich No 2 Strip
    Surface coal · Mich Coal Company · MSHA ID 1300376
    Abandoned
  16. Monticello Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301364
    Abandoned
  17. Monticello Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301373
    Abandoned
  18. No 2 Strip
    Surface coal · Weldon Coal Company · MSHA ID 1300379
    Abandoned
  19. Olin Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wendling Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1300173
    Abandoned
  20. Rogers Rock & Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · SAS Construction · MSHA ID 1302474
    Abandoned
  21. SAND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1302249
    Abandoned
  22. Stephen Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dyersville Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 1302007
    Abandoned
  23. Tenley Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alpha Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 1301276
    Abandoned
  24. Weber Mine And Mill
    Underground metal/non-metal · Weber Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1301262
    Abandoned
  25. Weber Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weber Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1301833
    Abandoned
  26. Wyoming Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B L Anderson Inc · MSHA ID 1301365
    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 37
Quarry 11
Gravel Pit 8
Gravel Pit 7
Sand Pit 4
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.