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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Stutsman County, North Dakota

Stutsman County, North Dakota has 115 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1950–1990. MSHA's register carries 16 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Stutsman 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)
115
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
16
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits35 quadrangle maps, published 1950–1990 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
    3 2.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    112 97.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned16 on register
  1. BROBST PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lindberg Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3200709
    Abandoned
  2. County Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jamestown City Highway Department · MSHA ID 3200599
    Abandoned
  3. Diamond B Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Diamond B Enterprises · MSHA ID 3200605
    Abandoned
  4. Hansted Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hansted Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3200163
    Abandoned
  5. Jamestown Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Pacific Railway Company · MSHA ID 3200237
    Abandoned
  6. Klose Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stutsman County Road Department · MSHA ID 3200271
    Abandoned
  7. Krapp Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Everetts & Associates Inc · MSHA ID 3200533
    Abandoned
  8. Perless #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Windjue Payloader Ser. · MSHA ID 3200804
    Abandoned
  9. Portable #10
    Surface metal/non-metal · Strata Corporation · MSHA ID 3200172
    Abandoned
  10. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stutsman County Road Department · MSHA ID 3200203
    Abandoned
  11. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Everetts & Associates Inc · MSHA ID 3200368
    Abandoned
  12. Portable Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Border States Paving Inc · MSHA ID 3200735
    Abandoned
  13. Portable Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scherbenske & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3200280
    Abandoned
  14. Scherbenske Excavating & Trucking
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scherbenske Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3200193
    Abandoned
  15. Scherbenske Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scherbenske & Son Inc · MSHA ID 3200855
    Abandoned
  16. Stutsman County Road Dept
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stutsman County Road Department · MSHA ID 3200598
    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 51
Gravel Pit 50
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Quarry 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.