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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Allegan County, Michigan

Allegan County, Michigan has 196 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1958–1982. MSHA's register carries 37 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Allegan 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)
196
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
37
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits23 quadrangle maps, published 1958–1982 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
    2 1.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    194 99.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned37 on register
  1. 23rd St. Lodenstein Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Langlois and Sons Excavating · MSHA ID 2003452
    Abandoned
  2. AC #2 Portable Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate & Developing LLC · MSHA ID 2003364
    Abandoned
  3. Allegan County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yerington Construction Company · MSHA ID 2001947
    Abandoned
  4. Allegan County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cole Brothers Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 2002409
    Abandoned
  5. Allegan County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B A Contractors · MSHA ID 2002517
    Abandoned
  6. Allegan County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Visser Brothers Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2002671
    Abandoned
  7. Allegan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Aggregate LLC · MSHA ID 2003615
    Abandoned
  8. Allegan Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great Lakes Excavating services · MSHA ID 2003690
    Abandoned
  9. Belden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kev'S Excavating · MSHA ID 2000004
    Abandoned
  10. CEDAR RAPIDS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waanders Concrete Company · MSHA ID 2002865
    Abandoned
  11. CEDAR RAPIDS SCREENING PLANT-POR
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002974
    Abandoned
  12. CEDARAPIDS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jones Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2002938
    Abandoned
  13. Douglas Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charles E Douglas · MSHA ID 2000400
    Abandoned
  14. Grigsby Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brewer'S City Dock Inc · MSHA ID 2001928
    Abandoned
  15. Hamilton Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamilton Block & Ready-Mix Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001431
    Abandoned
  16. Hughes Otsego
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brewer'S City Dock Inc · MSHA ID 2001201
    Abandoned
  17. JD Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Aggregate LLC · MSHA ID 2003241
    Abandoned
  18. M-40 PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waanders Concrete Company · MSHA ID 2002880
    Abandoned
  19. Marsh Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Al'S Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 2002805
    Abandoned
  20. MAX PLANT - SCREENER
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2003052
    Abandoned
  21. Middlemiss Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cash & Carry Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002370
    Abandoned
  22. Miller Pit & Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2000899
    Abandoned
  23. Miller Pit And Mill #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2001439
    Abandoned
  24. Miner's Lake Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Material CO, LLC · MSHA ID 2003667
    Abandoned
  25. Otsego Repair Shop
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Smith S&G · MSHA ID 2001315
    Abandoned
  26. P.E.P. PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Industries Northeast Regi · MSHA ID 2002939
    Abandoned
  27. Pavlak Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Emil Pavlak · MSHA ID 2000047
    Abandoned
  28. Pioneer Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fein-Miller Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002735
    Abandoned
  29. Plainwell Aggregate Resources
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Resources, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003286
    Abandoned
  30. Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arnsman Septic Service Inc. · MSHA ID 2003573
    Abandoned
  31. Portable Crusher- Otsego
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Material CO, LLC · MSHA ID 2003631
    Abandoned
  32. Stoneco Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michigan Paving and Materials Company · MSHA ID 2002927
    Abandoned
  33. Stoneco Portable #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michigan Paving and Materials Company · MSHA ID 2003538
    Abandoned
  34. Sweet/Pullman Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Material CO, LLC · MSHA ID 2002371
    Abandoned
  35. TITAN POWERSCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002944
    Abandoned
  36. Wash Plant #1
    Facility metal/non-metal · Fein-Miller Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002917
    Abandoned
  37. Wedge Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Boerman Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2002373
    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 95
Sand Pit 64
Gravel Pit 24
Sand Pit 9
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
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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.