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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Jefferson County, New York

Jefferson County, New York has 214 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1982. MSHA's register carries 59 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Jefferson 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)
214
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
59
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits29 quadrangle maps, published 1942–1982 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
    97 45.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    117 54.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned59 on register
  1. 1000 Island Ready-Mix Concrete Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · 1000 Island Ready Mix Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3001575
    Abandoned
  2. ALLEN COFFEEN GRAVEL & SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allen Coffeen · MSHA ID 3003136
    Abandoned
  3. Black River Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Leray · MSHA ID 3001951
    Abandoned
  4. Black River Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · County Of Jefferson · MSHA ID 3002164
    Abandoned
  5. Bolio Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · County Of Jefferson · MSHA ID 3002160
    Abandoned
  6. Bombard Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · County Of Jefferson · MSHA ID 3002161
    Abandoned
  7. Brookside Drive Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Watertown · MSHA ID 3001954
    Abandoned
  8. Church Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Champion · MSHA ID 3002203
    Abandoned
  9. CLAYTON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Clayton · MSHA ID 3002280
    Abandoned
  10. Cole Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Card'S Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3001952
    Abandoned
  11. Cranesville Aggregate Co
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cranesville Block Company Inc · MSHA ID 3001126
    Abandoned
  12. CRANESVILLE AGGREGATES WEST CART
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cranesville Block Company · MSHA ID 3003135
    Abandoned
  13. Ebbrecht Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Brownville · MSHA ID 3002956
    Abandoned
  14. Edison Mullen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Henderson · MSHA ID 3002151
    Abandoned
  15. Farney Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Farney'S Inc Home & Building Center · MSHA ID 3002596
    Abandoned
  16. Felts Mills
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Vespa Inc Sand & Stone Products · MSHA ID 3002881
    Abandoned
  17. Felts Mills Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Vespa Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002030
    Abandoned
  18. Flick'S Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Curt E Flick · MSHA ID 3002289
    Abandoned
  19. Freeman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Rutland · MSHA ID 3002284
    Abandoned
  20. Great Bend Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heidelberg Materials Northeast-NY LLC · MSHA ID 3002735
    Abandoned
  21. Greystone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greystone Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 3002794
    Abandoned
  22. Hall Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jefferson County · MSHA ID 3003696
    Abandoned
  23. Harpers Ferry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · County Of Jefferson · MSHA ID 3002163
    Abandoned
  24. Inglehart Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jefferson County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002908
    Abandoned
  25. Joss Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.G. King General Construction inc. · MSHA ID 3003800
    Abandoned
  26. Kellogg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Great Bend Aggregates · MSHA ID 3002691
    Abandoned
  27. Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E K & P Stiles Inc · MSHA ID 3002554
    Abandoned
  28. Maguire Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vincent Maguire Trucking · MSHA ID 3002584
    Abandoned
  29. Mixer Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morgan J. Williams · MSHA ID 3003568
    Abandoned
  30. Moffatt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jefferson County · MSHA ID 3002746
    Abandoned
  31. Moffett Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Brownville · MSHA ID 3002784
    Abandoned
  32. Pelo Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kemp Stone & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002828
    Abandoned
  33. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Larry'S Construction · MSHA ID 3002702
    Abandoned
  34. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Brownville · MSHA ID 3002703
    Abandoned
  35. Plant 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Champion Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002805
    Abandoned
  36. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · R G King General Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3002034
    Abandoned
  37. PORTABLE PLANT #7
    Surface metal/non-metal · RMS Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003471
    Abandoned
  38. Portable Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · R G King General Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3003047
    Abandoned
  39. Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & H Limestone Company · MSHA ID 3002681
    Abandoned
  40. Rome State Road Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Hounsfield · MSHA ID 3003002
    Abandoned
  41. Rural Hill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eastman Corp · MSHA ID 3002041
    Abandoned
  42. Scoville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vern Scoville Gravel · MSHA ID 3002775
    Abandoned
  43. Solar White
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Cape Vincent · MSHA ID 3002054
    Abandoned
  44. Soper Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brian Soper · MSHA ID 3002288
    Abandoned
  45. St Lawrence Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · County Of Jefferson · MSHA ID 3002162
    Abandoned
  46. The Plessis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Alexandria · MSHA ID 3002175
    Abandoned
  47. The Rebscher Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frederick G Rebscher · MSHA ID 3002053
    Abandoned
  48. Thesiers Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big T Construction Company · MSHA ID 3002676
    Abandoned
  49. THOMAS SANDPIT-BACKHOE SERVICE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomas' Sandpit & Backhoe Service · MSHA ID 3003091
    Abandoned
  50. THOMPSON FARMS SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thompson Farms Quarry · MSHA ID 3003083
    Abandoned
  51. Tiffys
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lyme · MSHA ID 3002210
    Abandoned
  52. Towles Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morgan Williams Excavation Trucking & Comp Sep Ser · MSHA ID 3003691
    Abandoned
  53. Town Of Pamelia Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Pamelia · MSHA ID 3001822
    Abandoned
  54. Town Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Ellisburg · MSHA ID 3002886
    Abandoned
  55. Watertown Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Torrington Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3000807
    Abandoned
  56. Watertown Sand & Stone/West Carthage Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cranesville Block Co Inc · MSHA ID 3002825
    Abandoned
  57. Whitmore'S Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitmore'S Gravel · MSHA ID 3002824
    Abandoned
  58. Williams Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R G King General Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3003686
    Abandoned
  59. Zahn'S Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zahn'S Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002816
    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
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 65
Gravel Pit 38
Quarry 33
Disturbed Surface 30
Gravel Pit 12
Sand Pit 11
Sand and Gravel Pit 9
Quarry 5
Sand and Gravel Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Sand Pit 2
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.