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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Cattaraugus County, New York

Cattaraugus County, New York has 223 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1980. MSHA's register carries 31 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Cattaraugus 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
31
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits29 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1980 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
    14 6.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    209 93.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned31 on register
  1. Allegany Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buffalo Slag Company Inc · MSHA ID 3000818
    Abandoned
  2. ASHFORD TOWN GRAVEL PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Ashford · MSHA ID 3003283
    Abandoned
  3. Beaver Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Philip A Baker Construction · MSHA ID 3002660
    Abandoned
  4. Birch Run Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richard L. Peck Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 3003723
    Abandoned
  5. Denny Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rick Perkins Contracting · MSHA ID 3003890
    Abandoned
  6. Eagle Crusher 1200-25 S/N 30761
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & H Materials · MSHA ID 3003645
    Abandoned
  7. Edel-Rock-Freedom
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Borer · MSHA ID 3003397
    Abandoned
  8. Fintec 570 S/N 2007570414
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & H Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3003644
    Abandoned
  9. Girl Scout Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Randolph · MSHA ID 3002239
    Abandoned
  10. Hy Banks Gravel Prod
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jamestown Macadam Inc · MSHA ID 3002974
    Abandoned
  11. Ischua Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spencer & Haley Inc · MSHA ID 3002641
    Abandoned
  12. KINLEY SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · KINLEY SAND & GRAVEL · MSHA ID 3001003
    Abandoned
  13. Machias Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boehmer Gravel Products Inc · MSHA ID 3001689
    Abandoned
  14. Machias Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buffalo Crushed Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002799
    Abandoned
  15. MACHIAS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buffalo Crushed Stone Inc. · MSHA ID 3002867
    Abandoned
  16. Metso LT 12135 Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 3003965
    Abandoned
  17. Millgrove Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Millgrove Gravel Pit · MSHA ID 3002542
    Abandoned
  18. Peterson Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redland Quarries NY Inc · MSHA ID 3004094
    Abandoned
  19. Pioneer Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pioneer Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003025
    Abandoned
  20. Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Producers Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002798
    Abandoned
  21. Richard Zink
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richard Zink · MSHA ID 3002846
    Abandoned
  22. Rickert Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little Valley Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002249
    Abandoned
  23. Rules Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E R Rule & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002065
    Abandoned
  24. THOMPSON ROAD GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of East Otto Highway · MSHA ID 3002250
    Abandoned
  25. TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Conewango · MSHA ID 3002240
    Abandoned
  26. Town Pitt
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Great Valley Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002066
    Abandoned
  27. Towns Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gerold Town · MSHA ID 3002241
    Abandoned
  28. Waites Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Franklinville Hwy Dept · MSHA ID 3002693
    Abandoned
  29. WALDON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Farmersville · MSHA ID 3002694
    Abandoned
  30. William J Lippert & Son Sand And Gr
    Surface metal/non-metal · William J Lippert & Son · MSHA ID 3001000
    Abandoned
  31. YORKSHIRE GRAVEL PRODUCTS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buffalo Creek Landscaping Inc · MSHA ID 3003214
    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 143
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 32
Gravel Pit 24
Disturbed Surface 10
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Quarry 4
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Borrow Pit 2
Quarry 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.