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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Hampden County, Massachusetts

Hampden County, Massachusetts has 138 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1889–1979; 3 of the features carry a name on the map. 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 Hampden 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)
138
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
44
3 features carry a name0 prospect pits18 quadrangle maps, published 1889–1979 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
    29 21.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    109 79.0%
Named features on the maps3 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Granite Quarry Quarry - Rock
Marble Quarries Quarry
Westfield Marble Quarries Quarry

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned44 on register
  1. 1144 Nordberg Cone Plant #3351644
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gagliarducci Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901190
    Abandoned
  2. 2017 McCloskey R 155 Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gagliarducci Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1901215
    Abandoned
  3. Airport Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ware River Development Corp · MSHA ID 1900978
    Abandoned
  4. B & C Pit-Machado Pit Or Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruschi Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1900568
    Abandoned
  5. Banas Sand & Gravel Co Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Banas Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1900407
    Abandoned
  6. Bay State Crushing - Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baltazar Contractors · MSHA ID 1901145
    Abandoned
  7. Bug Hill Road Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · J Goodhall Inc · MSHA ID 1900946
    Abandoned
  8. Cedar Rapids Jaw 20-36 #48240
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gagliarducci Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901193
    Abandoned
  9. Construction Aggregates Pit And Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Ted Ondrick Company Llc · MSHA ID 1900571
    Abandoned
  10. Construction Service
    Surface metal/non-metal · Construction Service · MSHA ID 1900347
    Abandoned
  11. Construction Service
    Surface metal/non-metal · Construction Service · MSHA ID 1900973
    Abandoned
  12. Granville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jake Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1900917
    Abandoned
  13. GRAVEL PIT INCORPORATED
    Facility metal/non-metal · Gravel Pit Inc · MSHA ID 1900566
    Abandoned
  14. Greenwood #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greenwood Equipment Repair Inc. · MSHA ID 1901116
    Abandoned
  15. Hard Rock Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ondrick Portable Crushing & Paving, LLC · MSHA ID 1901109
    Abandoned
  16. Hi-Way Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Holland Highway Dept · MSHA ID 1900943
    Abandoned
  17. J W Cowles Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Cowles Construction Inc · MSHA ID 1900987
    Abandoned
  18. JJC MATERIALS INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jjc Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1900570
    Abandoned
  19. Johns Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John'S Trucking Of Agawam Inc · MSHA ID 1900325
    Abandoned
  20. Kibbe'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kibbe'S Gravel Pit · MSHA ID 1901025
    Abandoned
  21. Lambson Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lambson Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1900989
    Abandoned
  22. Lizak'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Construction Company · MSHA ID 1900977
    Abandoned
  23. Metso LT1213
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gagliarducci Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901192
    Abandoned
  24. Monson Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monson Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1900338
    Abandoned
  25. Montgomery Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hilltown Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 1901141
    Abandoned
  26. N/A
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baystate crushing & screening · MSHA ID 1901291
    Abandoned
  27. NW1213 Nordberg Impact Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gagliarducci Construction, Inc · MSHA ID 1901270
    Abandoned
  28. Palmer Paving Corp Warren Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Palmer Paving Corp · MSHA ID 1901115
    Abandoned
  29. Peter Lloyd Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peter Lloyd Excavating · MSHA ID 1901293
    Abandoned
  30. Plant No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruschi Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 1900972
    Abandoned
  31. Plant No 6
    Facility metal/non-metal · Bendix Abrasives Division · MSHA ID 1900979
    Abandoned
  32. Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pierce Builders Inc. · MSHA ID 1901208
    Abandoned
  33. PORTABLE WASH PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ted Ondrick Company LLC · MSHA ID 1901105
    Abandoned
  34. Ray Haluch Bank And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Haluch Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1900994
    Abandoned
  35. RAY HALUCH INC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Haluch Inc · MSHA ID 1901104
    Abandoned
  36. Rondeau Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Wilbraham Sand & Gravel & Concrete Co Inc · MSHA ID 1900992
    Abandoned
  37. Screener-Warrior Power Screen #12203097
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gagliarducci Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901194
    Abandoned
  38. SOUTHWICK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lane Construction Corp · MSHA ID 1900500
    Abandoned
  39. Southwick Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon Connecticut Inc · MSHA ID 1901045
    Abandoned
  40. Stony Hill Sand and Gravel, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stony Hill Sand and Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 1901123
    Abandoned
  41. UNION STREET PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · BERKSHIRE MATERIAL CORP · MSHA ID 1901140
    Abandoned
  42. Union Street Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lane Construction Corp · MSHA ID 1900580
    Abandoned
  43. Westfield Facility
    Facility metal/non-metal · Bendix Abrasives Division · MSHA ID 1900984
    Abandoned
  44. Westfield Properties, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westfield Ready- Mix Inc. · MSHA ID 1900372
    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
Gravel Pit 61
Quarry 14
Gravel Pit 13
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 13
Disturbed Surface 9
Sand Pit 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Sand and Gravel Pit 4
Sand Pit 4
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Quarry 2
Quarry - Rock 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.