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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in LaSalle County, Illinois

LaSalle County, Illinois has 192 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1911–1995. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 231 problems in the county, 21 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 44 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering LaSalle 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)
192
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
21
MSHA mines marked abandoned
44
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits18 quadrangle maps, published 1911–1995 231 OSMRE problems, 210 reclaimed 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    167 39.5%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    23 5.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    162 38.3%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    31 7.3%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    10 2.4%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    30 7.1%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems231 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
1 Hilltop Dr Pit Subsidence 2019 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
15th Road Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
1st St Pit Subsidence 2018 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
206 W 2nd St Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
2nd Street Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
305 Frech Street Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
325 LaSalle Street Pit Subsidence 2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
405 S. Everett Street Pit Subsidenc P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
520 W French St Pit Subsidence 2019 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
611 Park St Pit Subsidence 2018 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
816 S Park St Pit Subsidence 2018 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Acme C.c. P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Acres Dr Pit Subsidence 2019 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
B & H Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bao Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bell Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bennett Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bennett Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bents Coal Company P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Bents Coal Company P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Bents Coal Company P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Blackball Mine P1 Portals Reclamation Pending
Bloomington Street Pit Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Bluffside Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bluffside Pit II P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bowman Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Brewer Pits P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buffalo Rock Cc P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Bulldog Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
C.W.&V. Old No. 1 Unidentified Open P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cameron Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cedar Point No.5 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cedar Point No.5 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cedar Point No.5 P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Center Court Pit P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Center Court Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Charles St Pit Subsidence 2019 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chicago - Richards Pit P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Chicago - Richards Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chicago, Wilmington P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Chicago, Wilmington P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chicago, Wilmington P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Chicago, Wilmington, Verm #2 P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Chicago, Wilmington, Verm #2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chicago, Wilmington, Verm #2 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Cross Street Ii Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cross Street Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Czarnecki Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Deer Park Mine P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Deer Park Mine P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Deer Park Mine P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Deer Park Mine P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Deer Park Mine P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Delbert Iii Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Donavan Coal Company P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
E. 1553rd Road Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
E. 5th Road Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emer. Curley Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emer. Delbert Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emer. Johnson/third St. Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emergency Bayer Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emergency Fleming Pit Ii P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emergency Liptak Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emergency Richardson Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emergency-araujo Pit Ii Sub. P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emergency-fleming Iii Pit Subsidenc P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emergency-south Richards Pit Sub. P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Evan III Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Feken Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
First Street Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Frech Street Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
French Coal Company P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
French Coal Company P3 Slump Reclamation Pending
Fuget II Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Fuget Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
G & J Mine #1 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Galuva Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Garcia Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Gilson Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Gula Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
H&n Plumb C.c. P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Hanson Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Harrison C.c. #4 P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Harrison C.c. #4 P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Haskins Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Heenanville Coal Company P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hilliard Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hilltop Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hilltop V Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Himan Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Il - La Salle - Fea P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Illinois Valley C.c. P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Illinois Valley C.c. P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Isermann Ii Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Isermann Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
J. Pettrotti P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
J. Pettrotti P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Jensen Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Joseph Street Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kain Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kaschak Pit Subsidence 2018 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Katchmar Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Keeney Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kollar Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kruger Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
La Salle Mine P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
La Salle Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Lasalle County Carbon Jones Mine P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Lee Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lehigh Cement Plant P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Leonard Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lowell Coal Company P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Lowell Coal Company P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Lucile Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lukach Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lynch Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Marilla Park Pit Subsidence 2022 P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Marilla Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mathiessen & Hegeler P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Mathiessen & Hegeler P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mckim Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Melrose Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Melvin Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mendoza Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Millis Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Milner Street Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Morgan II Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Morgan Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Munson Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
N. Bloomington Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Neumann Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
North Bloomington St Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
North Jefferson St Pit Subsidence 2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
North Point Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
North Utica Drifts P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
North Utica Drifts P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
North Utica Drifts 2018 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
North Utica Drifts 2018 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Northlawn Junior High Pit Subsidenc P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Northlawn School Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Northpoint Dr. Pit Subsidence 2024 P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Obrohta Ii Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Old Caledonia P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Old Caledonia P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Old Caledonia P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Old Sowerby Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Old Sowerby Mine P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Olson Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Osage Coal Co. P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Osage Coal Co. P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed

…and 81 more problems not listed here.

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned44 on register
  1. Boehm No 2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boehm Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1100479
    Abandoned
  2. Dickens Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Salle County Portable Inc · MSHA ID 1101758
    Abandoned
  3. DIMMICK PORTABLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1102841
    Abandoned
  4. Dimmick Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Illinois Cement Company · MSHA ID 1103035
    Abandoned
  5. Feken Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Feken Trucking · MSHA ID 1102309
    Abandoned
  6. Fox River Minerals Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fox River Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1102918
    Abandoned
  7. GARROW QY & ML
    Surface metal/non-metal · L S Garrow & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1100065
    Abandoned
  8. Holcim Sheridan Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holcim - MAMR, Inc. · MSHA ID 1101245
    Abandoned
  9. Hoxsey Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoxsey Sand Company · MSHA ID 1102573
    Abandoned
  10. Kendall County Concrete Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kendall County Concrete Crushing · MSHA ID 1103255
    Abandoned
  11. Lasalle Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Illinois Cement Company · MSHA ID 1102708
    Abandoned
  12. Lucy Pit 1a
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spicer Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102693
    Abandoned
  13. Materialite Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Material Service Corp · MSHA ID 1100485
    Abandoned
  14. Mertel Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mertel Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1101169
    Abandoned
  15. Mill C Tunnel
    Underground metal/non-metal · Ottawa Industrial Sand Company · MSHA ID 1102779
    Abandoned
  16. NORWEGIAN SAND & STONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norwegian Sand & Stone Company · MSHA ID 1103019
    Abandoned
  17. Oglesby Cement Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Buzzi Unicem USA · MSHA ID 1100114
    Abandoned
  18. Oglesby Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marquette Company · MSHA ID 1102709
    Abandoned
  19. Ottawa Pit Number 8
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Salle County Portable Inc · MSHA ID 1102613
    Abandoned
  20. Ottawa Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Voss Sandworks West Inc. · MSHA ID 1103152
    Abandoned
  21. Peru Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · U.S. Silica Company · MSHA ID 1103269
    Abandoned
  22. PORTABLE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · L S Garrow & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1102382
    Abandoned
  23. PORTABLE #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · L S Garrow & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1101175
    Abandoned
  24. Ristokrat Clay Pit 4 & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ristokrat Clay Products Company · MSHA ID 1100492
    Abandoned
  25. Sand Plant No. 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · River Valley Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 1103110
    Abandoned
  26. Serena Sand Plant-Zemi Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Consolidated Zemi Corp · MSHA ID 1101319
    Abandoned
  27. Sheridan Gravel Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Garrow Gravel Service Inc · MSHA ID 1101111
    Abandoned
  28. Sheridan Plant #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moline Consumers Company · MSHA ID 1101143
    Abandoned
  29. Sheridan Sand Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sheridan Sand Gravel · MSHA ID 1103070
    Abandoned
  30. SPICER PIT #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spicer Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102825
    Abandoned
  31. Streator Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-West Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1101756
    Abandoned
  32. Thompson Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spicer Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102520
    Abandoned
  33. THROP'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sheridan Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1103008
    Abandoned
  34. Tri County Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-County Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1102541
    Abandoned
  35. Triumph Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lafarge Western of Illinois Inc · MSHA ID 1103043
    Abandoned
  36. Triumph Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 1103200
    Abandoned
  37. Troy Grove Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moline Consumers Company · MSHA ID 1101565
    Abandoned
  38. Unimin Analytical Services Laboratory
    Facility metal/non-metal · Unimin Corp · MSHA ID 1102816
    Abandoned
  39. Utica Clay
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glen-Gery Corporation · MSHA ID 1101663
    Abandoned
  40. Utica Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Garrow Gravel Service Inc · MSHA ID 1101752
    Abandoned
  41. Utica Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Covia Solutions LLC · MSHA ID 1101015
    Abandoned
  42. Utica Silica
    Surface metal/non-metal · US Silica · MSHA ID 1103268
    Abandoned
  43. Wedron Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L S Garrow & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1101751
    Abandoned
  44. Wedron Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carri Scharf Materials · MSHA ID 1103277
    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
P1 Vertical Openings 145
Gravel Pit 54
Gravel Pit 27
Sand Pit 24
Sand Pit 19
P2 Vertical Openings 18
Clay Pit 18
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 11
Quarry 10
P1 Subsidence 10
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 9
P3 Gobs 8
P3 Spoil Area 7
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 7
Quarry 6
Mine Dump 6
Strip Mine 4
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 3
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
Clay Pit 3
P2 Clogged Streams 3
P1 Portals 2
P2 Portals 2
P3 Pits 2
P3 Slump 2
P3 Water Problems 2
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Open Pit Mine 1
P3 Equipment Facility 1
P2 Subsidence 1
Mine Dump 1
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 1
P3 Other 1
P3 High Wall 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.