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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Allegany County, New York

Allegany County, New York has 158 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1961–1978. MSHA's register carries 19 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Allegany 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)
158
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
19
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits25 quadrangle maps, published 1961–1978 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
    4 2.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    154 97.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned19 on register
  1. ALFRED STATION SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buffalo Crushed Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3000819
    Abandoned
  2. Almond Aggregates LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Almond Aggregates LLC · MSHA ID 3003086
    Abandoned
  3. AUSTIN-WESTERN #K3554
    Surface metal/non-metal · ALLEGANY COUNTY DEPT. OF PUBLIC WORKS · MSHA ID 3003398
    Abandoned
  4. Belfast Gravel Products Inc Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Belfast Gravel Products Inc · MSHA ID 3003295
    Abandoned
  5. BOLIVAR PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bolivar · MSHA ID 3002096
    Abandoned
  6. CEDAR RAPIDS 17388
    Surface metal/non-metal · TOWN OF ALLEN · MSHA ID 3003418
    Abandoned
  7. Clarksville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Clarksville · MSHA ID 3002091
    Abandoned
  8. Genesee Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Genesee · MSHA ID 3002095
    Abandoned
  9. Hume Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Hume · MSHA ID 3002069
    Abandoned
  10. June Bug Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · June Bug Holdings LLC · MSHA ID 3003407
    Abandoned
  11. Karr Valley Rd Associates LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Karr Valley Rd Associates LLC · MSHA ID 3003746
    Abandoned
  12. NAAR'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manfred Naar · MSHA ID 3003285
    Abandoned
  13. Pegson 428-2 (QM022936)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dickerson Construction · MSHA ID 3003713
    Abandoned
  14. Portable Austin-Western Crusher #K3554
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Angelica Highway Dept. · MSHA ID 3003508
    Abandoned
  15. R. S. Potter and Son
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. S. Potter & Son · MSHA ID 3003443
    Abandoned
  16. SAND HILL GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand Hill Gravel · MSHA ID 3002067
    Abandoned
  17. Tesab 643
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dickerson Construction · MSHA ID 3003748
    Abandoned
  18. Town of Amity
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Amity · MSHA ID 3003602
    Abandoned
  19. WARSAW SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Warsaw Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003257
    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 110
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 15
Gravel Pit 12
Sand and Gravel Pit 10
Disturbed Surface 4
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Quarry 3
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.