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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Jackson County, Michigan

Jackson County, Michigan has 130 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1919–1981. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 5 problems in the county, 1 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 32 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Jackson 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)
130
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
1
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits20 quadrangle maps, published 1919–1981 5 OSMRE problems, 4 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
    2 1.5%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    7 5.2%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    123 91.1%
  4. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    3 2.2%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems5 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Andrews P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Eureka P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Jewell P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Jewell P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mi - Jackson - Fea P1 Subsidence 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 Abandoned32 on register
  1. 29 Mile Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lester Brothers Excavation, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003248
    Abandoned
  2. BILL RAY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Ray · MSHA ID 2003142
    Abandoned
  3. Chelsea Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meyer Material CO, LLC · MSHA ID 2000767
    Abandoned
  4. Eagle 1000 Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bailey Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2003371
    Abandoned
  5. G & A Sand & Gravel, L.L.C
    Surface metal/non-metal · G & A Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 2002879
    Abandoned
  6. HARD ROCK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hard Rock Quarry, LLC · MSHA ID 2003527
    Abandoned
  7. Hart Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stevick Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002904
    Abandoned
  8. Jackson Aggregate Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Aggregate Materials · MSHA ID 2002589
    Abandoned
  9. Jackson County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cole Brothers Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 2002407
    Abandoned
  10. Jackson County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Smith Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002468
    Abandoned
  11. Jackson County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & M Development Company · MSHA ID 2002636
    Abandoned
  12. Klink Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Klink Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2002847
    Abandoned
  13. Mann
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl Schlegel Inc. · MSHA ID 2003542
    Abandoned
  14. Mayo Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jule Swartz & Sons Excavators · MSHA ID 2003254
    Abandoned
  15. Mellen Camp Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fransted Construction · MSHA ID 2002348
    Abandoned
  16. Napoleon Aggregate, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Napoleon Aggregate, LLC. · MSHA ID 2003270
    Abandoned
  17. Napoleon Stone Quarry Napoleon Ston
    Surface metal/non-metal · Napoleon Stone Quarry · MSHA ID 2000991
    Abandoned
  18. PALMER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Palmer Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2000808
    Abandoned
  19. PLANT 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crushing Concepts Inc · MSHA ID 2003045
    Abandoned
  20. PLANT 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crushing Concepts Inc · MSHA ID 2003044
    Abandoned
  21. PLEASANT LAKE SAND & GRAVEL LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pleasant Lake Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 2003105
    Abandoned
  22. PORTABLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bailey Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2003037
    Abandoned
  23. PORTABLE PLANT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stevick Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2003027
    Abandoned
  24. PORTABLE PROCESSING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stevick Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002968
    Abandoned
  25. Portable Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Target Trucking LLC · MSHA ID 2003570
    Abandoned
  26. R.P.M. EXCAVATING CORP.
    Surface metal/non-metal · R P M Excavating Corp · MSHA ID 2002922
    Abandoned
  27. Stevick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stevick Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2001069
    Abandoned
  28. Swartz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jule Swartz & Sons Excavators · MSHA ID 2003255
    Abandoned
  29. TESABTCHIEF5036
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crushing Concepts Inc · MSHA ID 2003043
    Abandoned
  30. TROLZ LAND LEVELING
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trolz Land Leveling · MSHA ID 2003176
    Abandoned
  31. TROMMEL SCREEN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carr Brothers and Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003622
    Abandoned
  32. Wells Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bailey Excavating · MSHA ID 2003526
    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 96
Quarry 10
Gravel Pit 10
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
P1 Subsidence 3
P2 Vertical Openings 2
Sand 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.