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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Madison County, New York

Madison County, New York has 147 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1994. MSHA's register carries 29 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Madison 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)
147
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
29
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1942–1994 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
    138 93.9%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    9 6.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned29 on register
  1. Belden Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Brookfield Highway Dept · MSHA ID 3002425
    Abandoned
  2. CAZENOVIA GRAVEL BED
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Cazenovia Highway Dept · MSHA ID 3002260
    Abandoned
  3. CAZENOVIA READY MIX
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cazenovia Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 3002265
    Abandoned
  4. Crouse Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nick Zupan & Sons · MSHA ID 3002320
    Abandoned
  5. Crouse Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crouse Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 3003010
    Abandoned
  6. Denrick Farms Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pratts Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002961
    Abandoned
  7. Jewett Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Hamilton · MSHA ID 3002342
    Abandoned
  8. Jewett Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reuter Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3002885
    Abandoned
  9. Jewett Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hamilton Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002884
    Abandoned
  10. Johnson Sand Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Madison County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001348
    Abandoned
  11. Lebanon Hill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rasmussen Gravel Products LLC · MSHA ID 3003535
    Abandoned
  12. Lincoln Stone Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · W H Q Corp · MSHA ID 3002200
    Abandoned
  13. Munnsville Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snyder Construction Company · MSHA ID 3002263
    Abandoned
  14. Munnsville Limestone Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Munnsville Limestone Corp · MSHA ID 3000079
    Abandoned
  15. Otis Marshall Farms Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Otis Marshall Farms Inc · MSHA ID 3003151
    Abandoned
  16. Palmer Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Madison County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002811
    Abandoned
  17. Pit 1 & 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Georgetown Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002293
    Abandoned
  18. Portable Crusher #235
    Surface metal/non-metal · Madison County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002286
    Abandoned
  19. Rasmussen Gravel Products LLC - Madison
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rasmussen Gravel Products LLC · MSHA ID 3003270
    Abandoned
  20. Rasmussen Gravel Products LLC -Poolville
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rasmussen Gravel Products LLC · MSHA ID 3003051
    Abandoned
  21. Rathbun Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003845
    Abandoned
  22. Riedel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Nelson · MSHA ID 3002731
    Abandoned
  23. Riedl Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Fenner · MSHA ID 3002290
    Abandoned
  24. Riedl Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Madison County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3003028
    Abandoned
  25. SNYDER CONSTRUCTION, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snyder Construction Company · MSHA ID 3003321
    Abandoned
  26. Spaulding Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Nelson · MSHA ID 3002750
    Abandoned
  27. Welch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · I T & C A Welch & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002264
    Abandoned
  28. White Eagle Sand & Stone LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · White Eagle Sand & Stone II LLC · MSHA ID 3003269
    Abandoned
  29. ZUPAN GRAVEL BED
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nick W Zupan & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3003133
    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 104
Disturbed Surface 28
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Gravel Pit 5
Gravel Pit 2
Quarry 1
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.