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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Chautauqua County, New York

Chautauqua County, New York has 132 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1981. MSHA's register carries 34 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Chautauqua 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)
132
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
34
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits21 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1981 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
    27 20.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    105 79.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned34 on register
  1. A J Marsh Contracting
    Surface metal/non-metal · A J Marsh Contracting · MSHA ID 3001720
    Abandoned
  2. Anderson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · George Anderson Jr · MSHA ID 3002659
    Abandoned
  3. BENCHLY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · C Benchley · MSHA ID 3002975
    Abandoned
  4. Cameron Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Poland Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002842
    Abandoned
  5. Cameron Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Carroll · MSHA ID 3002843
    Abandoned
  6. Cassadaga Gravel Products Ltd
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cassadaga Gravel Products Ltd · MSHA ID 3001694
    Abandoned
  7. Cassadaga Gravel Products Ltd
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cassadaga Gravel Products Ltd · MSHA ID 3002422
    Abandoned
  8. Cedar Rapids
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Ellington Highway Dept · MSHA ID 3002808
    Abandoned
  9. CEDAR RAPIDS CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chautauqua County-Dpw · MSHA ID 3002793
    Abandoned
  10. Eckmans Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ken Eckman Excavating · MSHA ID 3002661
    Abandoned
  11. Frew Run Aggregate Plant #11
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glenn O Hawbaker Inc · MSHA ID 3003658
    Abandoned
  12. Hoag Rd. Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri James Service Inc. · MSHA ID 3003430
    Abandoned
  13. Ivory Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jamestown Macadam, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003554
    Abandoned
  14. James Patti Excavating Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Patti Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3002001
    Abandoned
  15. K M D Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Cherry Creek · MSHA ID 3002610
    Abandoned
  16. Kolberg #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald J Harrington · MSHA ID 3003885
    Abandoned
  17. Longhouse Estate Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Longhouse Estate Inc. · MSHA ID 3003884
    Abandoned
  18. Longhouse Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B R Dewitt Inc · MSHA ID 3002561
    Abandoned
  19. MAPLE GROVE FARMS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Maple Grove Farms · MSHA ID 3002897
    Abandoned
  20. Meadows Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Chautauqua Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002807
    Abandoned
  21. NEWELL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Mina · MSHA ID 3003346
    Abandoned
  22. Pecks Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dean L Peck · MSHA ID 3002243
    Abandoned
  23. Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Philip A Baker Construction · MSHA ID 3002611
    Abandoned
  24. Portland Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Portland Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3001579
    Abandoned
  25. Riverside Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelson Brothers Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3002613
    Abandoned
  26. Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Parker Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3002614
    Abandoned
  27. Sinclairville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jamestown Macadam Inc · MSHA ID 3002848
    Abandoned
  28. Stedman Crusher Unit # PC021 s/n:D3257
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lopke Quarries, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003780
    Abandoned
  29. Tri James Cassadaga Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri James Services Inc. · MSHA ID 3003456
    Abandoned
  30. Tri-County Crushed Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-County Crushed Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3002820
    Abandoned
  31. Tri-James Services Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-James Services Inc · MSHA ID 3002244
    Abandoned
  32. Tri-James Services Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tri-James Services Inc · MSHA ID 3000991
    Abandoned
  33. Weise Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Russell A Weise Jr · MSHA ID 3003337
    Abandoned
  34. Woodlawn Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forrest Rowan Gravel Products Inc · MSHA ID 3002216
    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/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 85
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 18
Gravel Pit 14
Disturbed Surface 6
Gravel Pit 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
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.