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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Chemung County, New York

Chemung County, New York has 40 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1978. MSHA's register carries 32 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Chemung 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)
40
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits8 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1978 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
    8 20.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    32 80.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned32 on register
  1. Auskin Weston K3824
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Veteran · MSHA ID 3003148
    Abandoned
  2. Bannister Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Mc Donald Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3002390
    Abandoned
  3. Blackwell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R L CALLAHAN · MSHA ID 3002844
    Abandoned
  4. Breesport Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dalrymple Gravel & Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 3001690
    Abandoned
  5. Brewers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edger Civil and Utility LLC · MSHA ID 3003186
    Abandoned
  6. CHEMUNG COUNTY FARM
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chemung County Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 3002393
    Abandoned
  7. CHEMUNG COUNTY LANDFILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chemung County Solid Waste · MSHA ID 3003376
    Abandoned
  8. Chemung Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J F & J P Wenzel Inc · MSHA ID 3002401
    Abandoned
  9. Chemung Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Calvin C Cole Inc · MSHA ID 3002774
    Abandoned
  10. Dixon Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dixon Builders · MSHA ID 3002481
    Abandoned
  11. Halstead Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dalrymple Gravel & Contracting Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3003785
    Abandoned
  12. Horseheads Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates New York Inc. · MSHA ID 3000975
    Abandoned
  13. Janowski Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hakes Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002707
    Abandoned
  14. Janowski'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hakes Brothers Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3002440
    Abandoned
  15. KOLMAN SCREENING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Baldwin · MSHA ID 3003380
    Abandoned
  16. Lowman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lowman Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002413
    Abandoned
  17. Mc Donald Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dalrymple Gravel & Contracting Co Inc · MSHA ID 3002715
    Abandoned
  18. No 3 Maple Avenue Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dalrymple Gravel & Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 3000848
    Abandoned
  19. Peterson Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Austin Excavating & Paving · MSHA ID 3002971
    Abandoned
  20. PIT #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Porters' Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003102
    Abandoned
  21. Portable Pioneer Plant Ser 403007
    Surface metal/non-metal · Metzger Removal Inc · MSHA ID 3003759
    Abandoned
  22. ROY'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · R L CALLAHAN · MSHA ID 3003371
    Abandoned
  23. SAVONA
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dalrymple Gravel & Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003103
    Abandoned
  24. SOUTH PORT GRAVEL & STONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & M Mcdonald Contracting · MSHA ID 3003121
    Abandoned
  25. TOLBERT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Narde Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002900
    Abandoned
  26. TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Horseheads · MSHA ID 3002435
    Abandoned
  27. Town Source
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Erin · MSHA ID 3002523
    Abandoned
  28. Town Source
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Southport · MSHA ID 3002772
    Abandoned
  29. TOWN SOURCE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Catlin · MSHA ID 3002466
    Abandoned
  30. W W Enterprises
    Surface metal/non-metal · E R Wolcott Inc · MSHA ID 3001121
    Abandoned
  31. Wenzel Gravel Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · John F & John P Wenzel Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3003117
    Abandoned
  32. Wilcox Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Narde Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002706
    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 18
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Gravel Pit 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Disturbed Surface 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
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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.