Abandoned mines in Jo Daviess County, Illinois

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   31 23.7%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   35 26.7%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   64 48.9%
4. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   1 0.8%

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. Belk Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · P L Dillon Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 1100193
   Abandoned 1985-08-30
2. Beyer Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1102819
   Abandoned 1985-09-16
3. Branigar #1

   Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102746
   Abandoned 1985-05-03
4. Branigar #4

   Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102730
   Abandoned 1985-09-11
5. Brown Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · P W Ryan Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1100408
   Abandoned 1985-05-03
6. Bussan Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102767
   Abandoned 1981-08-24
7. Crawford Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102772
   Abandoned 1985-05-03
8. Distler Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1100238
   Abandoned 1985-09-11
9. Dixon Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · P L Dillon Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 1100672
   Abandoned 1985-05-03
10. Dixon Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102652
    Abandoned 1978-12-06
11. Doc Schamper Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · P W Ryan Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1100234
    Abandoned 1985-05-03
12. Fernsteat Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · P L Dillon Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 1102552
    Abandoned 1985-08-30
13. Goodmiller Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1100386
    Abandoned 1985-07-29
14. Goodmiller Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102651
    Abandoned 1978-12-06
15. Graham Mill

    Facility metal/non-metal · Eagle-Picher Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1100833
    Abandoned 1979-11-30
16. Hammer Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · P W Ryan Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1102748
    Abandoned 1981-08-25
17. Hilby Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · WC Stewart Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 1103177
    Abandoned 2008-06-23
18. Illinois Quarries Portable

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rees Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1100181
    Abandoned 1986-09-02
19. Jones Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Materials Company · MSHA ID 1101091
    Abandoned 2014-04-14
20. Klock Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102738
    Abandoned 1985-09-11
21. Millerschone Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · P W Ryan Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1100179
    Abandoned 1981-12-11
22. MJ Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · MJ Stone LLC · MSHA ID 1103271
    Abandoned 2019-02-12
23. Nobis Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102685
    Abandoned 1980-09-11
24. NORTH MAIN QUARRY

    Surface metal/non-metal · Frentress Lake Marine Center Inc · MSHA ID 1103026
    Abandoned 2003-09-04
25. Pierce Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Whiteside Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1102676
    Abandoned 1979-10-31
26. Pierce Quarry Portable #3

    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1102263
    Abandoned 1987-09-18
27. PORTABLE NO. 1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sproule Construction Co.,Inc. · MSHA ID 1102928
    Abandoned 2005-07-08
28. Portable No. 2

    Surface metal/non-metal · Sproule Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1103024
    Abandoned 2005-07-08
29. Portable Rip Rap Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Louie's Aggregate · MSHA ID 1103243
    Abandoned 2020-07-28
30. Schoenhard Pit And Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Oscar Zwolanek Lime & Gravel · MSHA ID 1101581
    Abandoned 1978-12-11
31. Schoenhard Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Louie's Aggregate Company · MSHA ID 1103300
    Abandoned 2021-08-19
32. Schultz Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1100237
    Abandoned 1985-09-11
33. Shelly Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggrecon Corp · MSHA ID 1102680
    Abandoned 1985-07-08
34. Spread 4

    Surface metal/non-metal · Conmat Inc., dba Helm Materials · MSHA ID 1100012
    Abandoned 2019-09-03
35. Steinstra Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · P W Ryan Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1102734
    Abandoned 1981-08-25
36. Stockton Stone, Inc. (P-Mark)

    Surface metal/non-metal · Stockton Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 1103267
    Abandoned 2019-08-01
37. Sweet Home Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · P L Dillon Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 1102737
    Abandoned 1987-08-28
38. Wienen Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1100678
    Abandoned 1985-09-11
39. Wilson Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · P L Dillon Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 1102771
    Abandoned 1985-05-03
40. Wubben Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · E Wienen & Sons Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1100239
    Abandoned 1981-07-28

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

• Will County 220
• LaSalle County 192
• McHenry County 191
• Winnebago County 187
• Kane County 184
• St. Clair County 136
• Hardin County 136
• Fulton County 131
• Stephenson County 127
• Williamson County 124
• Peoria County 122
• Cook County 114

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.