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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Kent County, Michigan

Kent County, Michigan has 405 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1914–1985, including 4 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 62 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Kent 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)
405
Mine openings
4
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
62
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits27 quadrangle maps, published 1914–1985 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
    4 1.0%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    47 11.6%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    354 87.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned62 on register
  1. AC Portable Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate & Developing LLC · MSHA ID 2003348
    Abandoned
  2. Allis Chalmers Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tip Top Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002687
    Abandoned
  3. Allis Chalmers Plant 945
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002710
    Abandoned
  4. B.C. PORTABLE I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Creek Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002907
    Abandoned
  5. Barber Creek Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Creek Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002725
    Abandoned
  6. BARBER CREEK SCREENER I
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Creek Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2003048
    Abandoned
  7. BARBER CREEK SCREENER II
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barber Creek Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2003050
    Abandoned
  8. Barmack Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Russ Parker Excavating & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002738
    Abandoned
  9. Belding Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Aggregate LLC · MSHA ID 2003417
    Abandoned
  10. BOLEDIN ALLIS CONE II
    Surface metal/non-metal · Parker Excavating Gravel & Recycle · MSHA ID 2002829
    Abandoned
  11. Butterworth Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverside Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001082
    Abandoned
  12. Butterworth Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jack De Vries Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 2002266
    Abandoned
  13. BYRON SAND
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prdl Llc · MSHA ID 2002988
    Abandoned
  14. CHERRY VALLEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heritage Resources Inc · MSHA ID 2003003
    Abandoned
  15. Coit Pit 7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ottawa Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003257
    Abandoned
  16. Contractors Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Contractors Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2000697
    Abandoned
  17. Crampton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pickitt & Schreur Company · MSHA ID 2002386
    Abandoned
  18. CUSTOM CRUSHING & RECYCLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Custom Crushing & Recycle · MSHA ID 2003144
    Abandoned
  19. De Vries Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E De Vries & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2000705
    Abandoned
  20. DREDGE OPERATIONS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coit Avenue Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2001295
    Abandoned
  21. Dykema Excavators
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dykema Excavators · MSHA ID 2003204
    Abandoned
  22. Extec Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002895
    Abandoned
  23. GEORGIA PACIFIC GRAND RAPIDS GYP
    Underground metal/non-metal · G-P Gypsum Corp · MSHA ID 2000378
    Abandoned
  24. Georgia Pacific Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Georgia Pacific Corp · MSHA ID 2000376
    Abandoned
  25. Gillisse Const Co Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gillisse Construction Company · MSHA ID 2001554
    Abandoned
  26. Gillisse Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverfront Sand & Redi-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2002736
    Abandoned
  27. Great Lakes Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great Lakes Gravel · MSHA ID 2001618
    Abandoned
  28. Hartman Fabco Hazemag Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ottawa Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003063
    Abandoned
  29. HARTMAN FABCO WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Russ Parker Excavating & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002819
    Abandoned
  30. HAZMAG
    Surface metal/non-metal · Russ Parker Excavating & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2003020
    Abandoned
  31. HEWITT ROBBINS WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002973
    Abandoned
  32. HP 300 - PORTABLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002918
    Abandoned
  33. Impact Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Russ Parker Excavating & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002737
    Abandoned
  34. Katz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pickitt & Schreur Company · MSHA ID 2002385
    Abandoned
  35. Kent County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Smith Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002427
    Abandoned
  36. Kent County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wiggins & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 2002431
    Abandoned
  37. Kent County Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cousineau Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002544
    Abandoned
  38. Kent County Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cousineau Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002545
    Abandoned
  39. Kent County Wash Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cousineau Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002535
    Abandoned
  40. KENTWOOD MINE
    Underground metal/non-metal · Georgia Pacific Corp · MSHA ID 2001019
    Abandoned
  41. LIPPMAN SCREENING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002905
    Abandoned
  42. Morse Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great Lakes Excavating Services · MSHA ID 2003122
    Abandoned
  43. NORDBERG OMNI PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002676
    Abandoned
  44. Peterson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Petersen Gravel & Excavating · MSHA ID 2000813
    Abandoned
  45. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2000798
    Abandoned
  46. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002553
    Abandoned
  47. Pit #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002580
    Abandoned
  48. Pit #51
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grand Rapids Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2003404
    Abandoned
  49. PLANT #14-PLAINFIELD
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grand Rapids Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2000729
    Abandoned
  50. Plant #20
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grand Rapids Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002456
    Abandoned
  51. PLANT #22
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grand Rapids Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2003194
    Abandoned
  52. PLANT #8-MAYNARD RD.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grand Rapids Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2000727
    Abandoned
  53. Plant No 5
    Facility metal/non-metal · Grand Rapids Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2000728
    Abandoned
  54. PLANT-77
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grand Rapids Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2003013
    Abandoned
  55. RIVERFRONT SAND
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverfront Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2003102
    Abandoned
  56. Riverside Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Kent Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002791
    Abandoned
  57. Rocks Ready Mix Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rocks Ready Mix Concrete Co Inc · MSHA ID 2000938
    Abandoned
  58. TELSMITH WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Russ Parker Excavating & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002740
    Abandoned
  59. Universal #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paul C. Miller Co. · MSHA ID 2002509
    Abandoned
  60. Wonderland Peat
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wonderland Peat · MSHA ID 2000405
    Abandoned
  61. Woodland Stone Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Woodland Paving Company · MSHA ID 2002724
    Abandoned
  62. WOODWORTH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Woodland Paving Company · MSHA ID 2002035
    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 234
Gravel Pit 68
Disturbed Surface - Pit 40
Sand Pit 33
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Sand Pit 5
Disturbed Surface 4
Sand and Gravel Pit 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Mine Shaft 3
Adit 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Other counties in MichiganAll counties →
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.