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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Ogle County, Illinois

Ogle County, Illinois has 88 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1930–1993. MSHA's register carries 24 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Ogle 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)
88
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
24
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits19 quadrangle maps, published 1930–1993 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
    5 5.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    83 94.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned24 on register
  1. Adeline Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Adeline Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 1103088
    Abandoned
  2. BAUCH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forreston Construction Materials · MSHA ID 1101155
    Abandoned
  3. Farmco Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Aggregates & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1100379
    Abandoned
  4. Fischer Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fischer Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1103181
    Abandoned
  5. Gilbert Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Myers Materials · MSHA ID 1100140
    Abandoned
  6. Hewitt Robins Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cordray Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1103129
    Abandoned
  7. Leaf River Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rail Rock Inc · MSHA ID 1102917
    Abandoned
  8. LIME KILN QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Materials Corp · MSHA ID 1103065
    Abandoned
  9. M.F. KUTZ QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · M F Kutz · MSHA ID 1100087
    Abandoned
  10. MACKLIN PLANT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Macklin Inc · MSHA ID 1100105
    Abandoned
  11. MACKLIN PLANT #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Macklin Inc · MSHA ID 1103031
    Abandoned
  12. Macklin Plant #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Macklin Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1100219
    Abandoned
  13. Pine Creek Rock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pine Creek Rock · MSHA ID 1102705
    Abandoned
  14. Pine Creek Rock Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pine Creek Rock Company · MSHA ID 1100164
    Abandoned
  15. PORTABLE UNIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alliance Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 1103077
    Abandoned
  16. Prindle Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Macklin Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1100108
    Abandoned
  17. Rochelle Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rochelle Stone & Asphalt · MSHA ID 1100185
    Abandoned
  18. Rock Cut Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Cut Quarries · MSHA ID 1102919
    Abandoned
  19. Sheely Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sheely Aggregates · MSHA ID 1102609
    Abandoned
  20. Sheely Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Renner'S Quarry · MSHA ID 1102394
    Abandoned
  21. Sheely Quarry Portable No. 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sheely Aggregates · MSHA ID 1102763
    Abandoned
  22. St Clair Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ogle County Highway Department · MSHA ID 1100151
    Abandoned
  23. Steven Benesh Quarry And Portable M
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frank N Butler Company · MSHA ID 1102359
    Abandoned
  24. WOOSUNG QUARRY PORTABLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woosung Quarry Products · MSHA ID 1102692
    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 39
Gravel Pit 22
Gravel Pit 8
Quarry 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Quarry - Rock 1
Quarry - Rock 1
Disturbed Surface 1
Sand Pit 1
Disturbed Surface - 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.