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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Carroll County, Illinois

Carroll County, Illinois has 63 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1985. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Carroll 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)
63
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits15 quadrangle maps, published 1942–1985 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
    7 11.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    56 88.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned20 on register
  1. Brookville Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Illinois Construction, LLC · MSHA ID 1103188
    Abandoned
  2. DERRER QUARRY PORTABLE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heisler Stone Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1102624
    Abandoned
  3. Eller Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Renner Quarries Ltd · MSHA ID 1100393
    Abandoned
  4. Gable Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Melvin C. Gable · MSHA ID 1103154
    Abandoned
  5. HELDT QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelson Quarry Products · MSHA ID 1100147
    Abandoned
  6. Judas Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1102678
    Abandoned
  7. Lake Carroll Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oregon Stone Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1100554
    Abandoned
  8. Lloyd Haas Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1102677
    Abandoned
  9. MT. CARROLL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Herb Tautz Excavating · MSHA ID 1102925
    Abandoned
  10. Portable Wash Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1100195
    Abandoned
  11. Ritchie Quarry, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ritchie Quarry, LLC · MSHA ID 1103174
    Abandoned
  12. RIVERSIDE CONST. EQUIP. SERV. SA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverside Construction Equip Serv Sales & Rental · MSHA ID 1102965
    Abandoned
  13. Riverside Quarry & Blacktop
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverside Const Equip Service Sales & Rental Inc · MSHA ID 1102946
    Abandoned
  14. Russell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woosung Quarry Products · MSHA ID 1100155
    Abandoned
  15. Savanna Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rein-Schultz & Dahl Of Illinois Inc · MSHA ID 1102599
    Abandoned
  16. Sorenson Quarry And Portable Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heisler Stone Company · MSHA ID 1102390
    Abandoned
  17. Spread 5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Conmat Inc., dba Helm Materials · MSHA ID 1103027
    Abandoned
  18. Sword
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eagle Creek Quarries · MSHA ID 1103091
    Abandoned
  19. Thomson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rein-Schultz & Dahl Of Illinois Inc · MSHA ID 1102694
    Abandoned
  20. Thomson-Groharing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whiteside Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1102732
    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 21
Quarry 16
Gravel Pit 8
Gravel Pit 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Sand Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Disturbed Surface - Pit 1
Sand Pit 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
  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.