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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Livingston County, New York

Livingston County, New York has 69 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1978, including 3 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 30 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Livingston 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)
69
Mine openings
3
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
30
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1942–1978 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    3 4.3%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    18 26.1%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    48 69.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned30 on register
  1. Austin-Western /Mod.1024 /ser.K-3880
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Leicester · MSHA ID 3003774
    Abandoned
  2. Bickford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Livonia · MSHA ID 3001926
    Abandoned
  3. Bickford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Geneseo · MSHA ID 3001933
    Abandoned
  4. County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Livingston County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002367
    Abandoned
  5. East Avon Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Island Contracting Corp · MSHA ID 3002592
    Abandoned
  6. Halpin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates New York Inc. · MSHA ID 3001187
    Abandoned
  7. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Avon · MSHA ID 3001930
    Abandoned
  8. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Caledonia · MSHA ID 3001931
    Abandoned
  9. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of York · MSHA ID 3001934
    Abandoned
  10. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Leicester · MSHA ID 3001950
    Abandoned
  11. HIGHWAY DEPT. PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Springwater · MSHA ID 3001929
    Abandoned
  12. Highway Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Nunda Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002366
    Abandoned
  13. HILLTOP GRAVEL PRODUCTS INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hilltop Gravel Products Inc · MSHA ID 3003196
    Abandoned
  14. Johnson Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Conesus · MSHA ID 3001927
    Abandoned
  15. Kennedy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Groveland · MSHA ID 3002365
    Abandoned
  16. Kennedy'S Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cold Spring Construction Company · MSHA ID 3002579
    Abandoned
  17. Kennedys Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kennedy Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002010
    Abandoned
  18. Lawson Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawson Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002591
    Abandoned
  19. Mrocezek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lane Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3002316
    Abandoned
  20. MT MORRIS PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elam Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 3001386
    Abandoned
  21. Retsof Screening/Bagging Facility
    Facility metal/non-metal · American Rock Salt Company LLC · MSHA ID 3000662
    Abandoned
  22. SCOTTSVILLE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elam Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 3002474
    Abandoned
  23. Scottsville Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spallina Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3000831
    Abandoned
  24. Sterling B Shaft
    Underground metal/non-metal · Akzo Salt Inc · MSHA ID 3002664
    Abandoned
  25. TOWN OF LIMA HIGHWAY DEPT.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lima · MSHA ID 3001925
    Abandoned
  26. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Portage · MSHA ID 3002248
    Abandoned
  27. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Mount Morris · MSHA ID 3002603
    Abandoned
  28. Valley Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3000988
    Abandoned
  29. Village Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Village Of Nunda · MSHA ID 3002083
    Abandoned
  30. West Sparta Highway Department
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Sparta Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001928
    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 28
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 17
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 11
Gravel Pit 7
Mine Shaft 3
Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine or 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.