Abandoned mines in Sangamon County, Illinois

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   40 26.0%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   28 18.2%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   26 16.9%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   14 9.1%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   7 4.5%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   39 25.3%

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. Clear Lake Sand & Gravel Co

   Surface metal/non-metal · Clear Lake Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1101077
   Abandoned 2007-10-01
2. Midstate Warehouse Incorporated

   Facility metal/non-metal · Midstate Warehouse Inc · MSHA ID 1102956
   Abandoned 1994-06-20
3. Rochester Sand & Gravel

   Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 1102877
   Abandoned 2020-03-04
4. Sang-Chris Sand & Gravel

   Surface metal/non-metal · Sang-Chris Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1103062
   Abandoned 2014-01-15
5. Sangamon Valley Sand & Gravel

   Surface metal/non-metal · Sangamon Valley Sand and Gravel LLC. · MSHA ID 1103195
   Abandoned 2013-09-23
6. Sangamon Valley Sand & Gravel Inc

   Surface metal/non-metal · Dave Clinard Truck Service Inc · MSHA ID 1101219
   Abandoned 2008-05-16
7. Springfield Sand & Gravel Company

   Surface metal/non-metal · Springfield Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1102714
   Abandoned 1985-08-27
8. Springfield Sand And Gravel Company

   Surface metal/non-metal · Springfield Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1101225
   Abandoned 1980-08-08

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.