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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Washtenaw County, Michigan

Washtenaw County, Michigan has 223 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1983. MSHA's register carries 36 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Washtenaw 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)
223
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
36
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits19 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1983 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
    16 7.2%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    207 92.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned36 on register
  1. BRIDGEWATER SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bridgewater Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2003065
    Abandoned
  2. CLARK RD.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prolime Corp · MSHA ID 2003107
    Abandoned
  3. Dixon Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2001624
    Abandoned
  4. Drake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002521
    Abandoned
  5. Du-Pine Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bennett Excavating & Gravel Compa · MSHA ID 2002345
    Abandoned
  6. Extec Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gentner Materials · MSHA ID 2003273
    Abandoned
  7. FARMER SAND & GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Farmer Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002810
    Abandoned
  8. Hansen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hansen Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002643
    Abandoned
  9. Hewitt Robins Plant #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittaker & Gooding Company · MSHA ID 2000619
    Abandoned
  10. Hewitt Robins Plant #7
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittaker & Gooding Company · MSHA ID 2002490
    Abandoned
  11. HEWITT ROBINS PORTABLE #113
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2002449
    Abandoned
  12. KILLINS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Liberty Sand Company · MSHA ID 2000891
    Abandoned
  13. M-52 Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · M-52 Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 2003585
    Abandoned
  14. Maple Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Du Pine Company · MSHA ID 2001754
    Abandoned
  15. McCloskey Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gentner Materials · MSHA ID 2003326
    Abandoned
  16. Mulreed Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holloway Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 2002525
    Abandoned
  17. PANTERA PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pantera Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2003225
    Abandoned
  18. Pioneer #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Farmer Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 2002891
    Abandoned
  19. Pit #1 C & T Materials, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & T Materials, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003232
    Abandoned
  20. Pit #9
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2002867
    Abandoned
  21. Pittsfield Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beck Mining & Equipment Leasing Inc · MSHA ID 2002899
    Abandoned
  22. Plant 4 HP62
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ashley Land Development Co Inc · MSHA ID 2003362
    Abandoned
  23. Pleasant Hills Pit 9
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittaker & Gooding Company · MSHA ID 2001627
    Abandoned
  24. Powerscreen
    Surface metal/non-metal · TR Transport LLC · MSHA ID 2003580
    Abandoned
  25. R. L. Whittaker Gravel Co., Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. L. Whittaker & Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 2003193
    Abandoned
  26. Rock Crete Products Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oerther Brothers Excavating · MSHA ID 2000902
    Abandoned
  27. Rockcrete Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chelsea Concrete Company · MSHA ID 2002703
    Abandoned
  28. Roe Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & M Gravel Company · MSHA ID 2002583
    Abandoned
  29. Saline Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Prolime Corporation · MSHA ID 2003426
    Abandoned
  30. Scio Pit 6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittaker & Gooding Company · MSHA ID 2000884
    Abandoned
  31. Spokane Impact Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittaker & Gooding Company · MSHA ID 2002696
    Abandoned
  32. Stationary Plant #127
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 2000802
    Abandoned
  33. Stone Scrubber (Ann Arbor Sand & Gravel)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gentner Materials · MSHA ID 2003400
    Abandoned
  34. Stoneco Zeeb West
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michigan Material and Aggregates · MSHA ID 2002812
    Abandoned
  35. T.M. DEVELOPMENT
    Surface metal/non-metal · T M Development · MSHA ID 2003004
    Abandoned
  36. Washtenaw County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whittaker & Gooding Company · MSHA ID 2002498
    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 115
Gravel Pit 52
Sand Pit 17
Disturbed Surface - Pit 16
Quarry 10
Sand Pit 9
Marl Pit 2
Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.