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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Ottawa County, Michigan

Ottawa County, Michigan has 127 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1958–1981. MSHA's register carries 29 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Ottawa 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)
127
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1958–1981 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
    12 9.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    115 90.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned29 on register
  1. Boynton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverview Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2000826
    Abandoned
  2. BOYNTON PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boynton Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002796
    Abandoned
  3. CLARK FARM
    Surface metal/non-metal · Specialty Sands Inc · MSHA ID 2000695
    Abandoned
  4. Clark Farms Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rieth-Riley Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002438
    Abandoned
  5. CONKLIN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · VANS CONTRACTING INC · MSHA ID 2003099
    Abandoned
  6. Construction Aggregates Corp of MI (Sag)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Construction Aggregates Corp. of MI · MSHA ID 2002413
    Abandoned
  7. Construction Aggregates Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pickitt & Schreur Company · MSHA ID 2002384
    Abandoned
  8. Construction Aggregates Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rieth-Riley Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002437
    Abandoned
  9. DIAMOND SCREEN PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & M Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002862
    Abandoned
  10. DYKEMA EXCAVATORS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dykema Excavators · MSHA ID 2003223
    Abandoned
  11. FINTEC
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & M GRAVEL INC · MSHA ID 2003493
    Abandoned
  12. Fleming Gravel Incorporated-Portable Pla
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fleming Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2000714
    Abandoned
  13. Garfield Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Westgate Construction · MSHA ID 2003296
    Abandoned
  14. Haverdink Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rieth-Riley Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001528
    Abandoned
  15. Kolberg Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & M Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2003098
    Abandoned
  16. Linden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · High Grade Materials Co. · MSHA ID 2000731
    Abandoned
  17. MISSOURI ROGERS
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & M Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002861
    Abandoned
  18. My-Con Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · My-Con Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002822
    Abandoned
  19. Ottawa County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Smith Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002426
    Abandoned
  20. Ottawa County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paul C Miller Company · MSHA ID 2002510
    Abandoned
  21. Ottawa County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wolverine Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002573
    Abandoned
  22. PIT #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ottawa Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 2002834
    Abandoned
  23. PIT #50
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grand Rapids Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2003203
    Abandoned
  24. Riverfront Sand & Redi-Mix - Edson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverfront Sand & Redi-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 2003268
    Abandoned
  25. Rosy Mound Standard Sand Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Standard Sand Corp · MSHA ID 2000847
    Abandoned
  26. S & M Gravel Company Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & M Gravel Company Inc. · MSHA ID 2003363
    Abandoned
  27. SPECIALTY SANDS GLEN LAKE SITE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Specialty Sands Inc · MSHA ID 2002825
    Abandoned
  28. WINANS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ottawa Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 2002355
    Abandoned
  29. ZUTPHEN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Shore Construction Company · MSHA ID 2000878
    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 46
Gravel Pit 46
Sand Pit 19
Disturbed Surface - Pit 12
Sand Pit 4
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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.