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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Huron County, Michigan

Huron County, Michigan has 96 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1963–1970. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 2 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 23 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Huron 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)
96
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1963–1970 2 OSMRE problems, 2 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
    1 1.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    96 98.0%
  3. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    1 1.0%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems2 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Mi - Huron - Fea P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Mi - Huron - Fea P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed

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 Abandoned23 on register
  1. Capital Stone 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Stoneworks · MSHA ID 2003468
    Abandoned
  2. Central #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Stone & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 2003239
    Abandoned
  3. CENTRAL STONE & GRAVEL LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Stone & Gravel Llc · MSHA ID 2001951
    Abandoned
  4. Hartsell
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westside Sand Products Inc · MSHA ID 2003652
    Abandoned
  5. Herp Stone & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Herp Stone & Gravel · MSHA ID 2003416
    Abandoned
  6. Holz Sand & Gravel - Universal #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holz Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 2003392
    Abandoned
  7. HOOPER CONSTRUCTION, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hooper Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2002760
    Abandoned
  8. Huron County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Molesworth Contracting Company · MSHA ID 2002420
    Abandoned
  9. Huron County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Williams Brothers Asphalt Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002584
    Abandoned
  10. Huron County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Smith Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002689
    Abandoned
  11. M-19 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tanton Redi Mix · MSHA ID 2001299
    Abandoned
  12. Madill Yarder
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lee Wood Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 2003446
    Abandoned
  13. Michigan Bluestone
    Surface metal/non-metal · McPhee Farms Inc. · MSHA ID 2003160
    Abandoned
  14. Pioneer #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · A3 CRUSHING & AGGREGATE, LLC · MSHA ID 2002997
    Abandoned
  15. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Huron County Road Commission · MSHA ID 2003269
    Abandoned
  16. Power Screen #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · A3 CRUSHING & AGGREGATE, LLC · MSHA ID 2003549
    Abandoned
  17. Powerscreen 510 5705644
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westside Sand Products · MSHA ID 2003655
    Abandoned
  18. Rescue
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westside Sand Products · MSHA ID 2003654
    Abandoned
  19. Sebewaing Limekiln Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Michigan Sugar Company · MSHA ID 2002273
    Abandoned
  20. Sheridan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sheridan Supply Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002588
    Abandoned
  21. Vollmer Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vollmer Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2000867
    Abandoned
  22. Washplant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holz Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 2003125
    Abandoned
  23. Yaroch Paving & Asphalt LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yaroch Paving & Asphalt LLC · MSHA ID 2002844
    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 64
Gravel Pit 11
Sand Pit 10
Quarry 6
Quarry 3
P1 Vertical Openings 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
P1 Subsidence 1
Sand 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.