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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Lewis County, New York

Lewis County, New York has 101 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1911–1989. MSHA's register carries 25 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Lewis 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)
101
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
25
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits27 quadrangle maps, published 1911–1989 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
    21 20.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    80 79.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned25 on register
  1. Callanan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002496
    Abandoned
  2. Croghan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Croghan · MSHA ID 3002189
    Abandoned
  3. Elmer Poore Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lyonsdale · MSHA ID 3002619
    Abandoned
  4. Gingerich Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of West Turin · MSHA ID 3002193
    Abandoned
  5. Harper Ferry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Denmark · MSHA ID 3002183
    Abandoned
  6. HOCH BROS QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoch Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3000895
    Abandoned
  7. IMIFABI (DIANA) LLC
    Facility metal/non-metal · Imifabi (Diana) LLC · MSHA ID 3001247
    Abandoned
  8. Kerager Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of West Turin · MSHA ID 3002194
    Abandoned
  9. Kiggins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002587
    Abandoned
  10. Lyndaker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lyndaker Backhoe Service · MSHA ID 3002182
    Abandoned
  11. Mc Cartney Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Talson & Talarico Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3002494
    Abandoned
  12. Milton Lehman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lyndaker Excavating & Trucking Llc · MSHA ID 3002580
    Abandoned
  13. Myslivecek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Osceola · MSHA ID 3003888
    Abandoned
  14. New Bremen Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of New Bremen · MSHA ID 3002044
    Abandoned
  15. NO. 4 MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.T.Vanderbilt Co, Gouverneur Mineral Division · MSHA ID 3002949
    Abandoned
  16. Patchin Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Diana · MSHA ID 3001953
    Abandoned
  17. Port Leyden Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3003796
    Abandoned
  18. River Road Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charles Humphrey Jr · MSHA ID 3003860
    Abandoned
  19. Terex Pegson 2644 #QM014129T
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lyndaker Excavating & Trucking LLC · MSHA ID 3004041
    Abandoned
  20. Town Of Leyden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Leyden · MSHA ID 3002532
    Abandoned
  21. Town Of Leyden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lyonsdale · MSHA ID 3002544
    Abandoned
  22. Town Of Lowville
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lowville · MSHA ID 3000072
    Abandoned
  23. Waterworks Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Martinsburg · MSHA ID 3002607
    Abandoned
  24. West Turin Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of West Turin · MSHA ID 3002197
    Abandoned
  25. Wildcat Rd Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Matt Farr Trucking · MSHA ID 3003893
    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 54
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 21
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 12
Quarry 7
Gravel Pit 3
Quarry 2
Sand Pit 1
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.