How many abandoned mines are in Winneshiek County, Iowa?

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Abandoned mines in Winneshiek County, Iowa

Winneshiek County, Iowa has 74 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1965–1981. MSHA's register carries 47 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Winneshiek 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): 74
Mine openings: 0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed: 0
MSHA mines marked abandoned: 47

0 features carry a name0 prospect pits18 quadrangle maps, published 1965–1981 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed

What the features are

Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction

74 100.0%

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned47 on register

Andera Sand Pit
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1302029

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Aske Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301412

Abandoned 1979-08-29
Bentley Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301745

Abandoned 1979-08-29
Broghammer Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301414

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Bruening Shop
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301426

Abandoned 1980-03-31
Burr Oak Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301271

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Carolan Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301441

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Castalia Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Kuhlman Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301748

Abandoned 1979-08-29
Earl Roberts Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Keune Construction Company · MSHA ID 1301830

Abandoned 1988-06-24
Eckerman
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1300793

Abandoned 1981-10-09
Eckerman Sand & Gravel
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301427

Abandoned 1981-10-09
Estrem Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301772

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Festina Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301609

Abandoned 1985-07-18
Freeport Pit
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301436

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Fulsaas Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301942

Abandoned 1985-07-18
Hanson Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301761

Abandoned 1979-08-29
Holthaus Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301273

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Horseshoe-Bend Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1300154

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Huke
Surface metal/non-metal · J F Pavlovec Rock Company Inc · MSHA ID 1300470

Abandoned 1980-09-25
Kendallville Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1300159

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Lewsch And Borseth Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301790

Abandoned 1979-08-29
Locust Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301611

Abandoned 1979-08-29
Love Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Paul Niemann Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300158

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Madison Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1300155

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Nordness Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1301442

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Peterson Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301989

Abandoned 1985-04-30
PORT. PLANT 1
Surface metal/non-metal · Seegmiller Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1302136

Abandoned 2001-03-05
Portable Plant
Surface metal/non-metal · Reilly Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1302201

Abandoned 2011-08-23
Portable Plant #3
Surface metal/non-metal · Reilly Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1302202

Abandoned 2014-01-07
Portable Plant #5
Surface metal/non-metal · Reilly Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1302382

Abandoned 2023-10-24
Portable Plant #6
Surface metal/non-metal · Reilly Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 1302383

Abandoned 2009-07-13
Portable Rip Rap Plant #1
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1302108

Abandoned 1989-07-24
Portable Rock Plant #1
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1302106

Abandoned 1989-07-24
Portable Rock Plant #2
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1302107

Abandoned 1989-07-24
Portable Rock Plant #2
Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River Midwest LLC · MSHA ID 2101392

Abandoned 2008-07-21
Portable Rock Plant #3
Surface metal/non-metal · Knife River Midwest LLC · MSHA ID 2103122

Abandoned 2009-08-18
Portable Sand Plant #1
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1302109

Abandoned 1989-07-24
Protivin
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1300160

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Schmitz Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Paul Niemann Construction Company · MSHA ID 1300162

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Serslend Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301687

Abandoned 1985-07-18
Sexton Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301686

Abandoned 1985-07-18
South Shop Karnick Building
Facility metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1302355

Abandoned 2017-04-10
Stika Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Roverud Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1302028

Abandoned 1985-07-22
Stoskopf Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301961

Abandoned 1981-08-24
Stripping Crew #3
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1302230

Abandoned 2026-07-24
Thompson Quarry
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 1301685

Abandoned 1985-07-18
WASH PLANT NO 3
Surface metal/non-metal · Bruening Rock Products Inc. · MSHA ID 2102933

Abandoned 2015-07-31

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	Class	Source	Features
Quarry	Quarries, gravel and borrow pits	USGS topo symbol (point)	56
Quarry	Quarries, gravel and borrow pits	USGS topo symbol (area)	6
Gravel Pit	Quarries, gravel and borrow pits	USGS topo symbol (point)	6
Sand Pit	Quarries, gravel and borrow pits	USGS topo symbol (point)	5
Gravel Pit	Quarries, gravel and borrow pits	USGS topo symbol (area)	1

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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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.