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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Oneida County, New York

Oneida County, New York has 166 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1993. MSHA's register carries 60 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Oneida 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)
166
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
60
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits29 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1993 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
    118 71.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    48 28.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned60 on register
  1. ALLEN ROAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · W H Stephan Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002801
    Abandoned
  2. B R Lanz Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · B R Lanz Gravel Bed · MSHA ID 3002219
    Abandoned
  3. Barneveld Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Marcy Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002237
    Abandoned
  4. Boonville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Swartout Construction Co · MSHA ID 3001133
    Abandoned
  5. Burdick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burdick Construction Company · MSHA ID 3002218
    Abandoned
  6. Burrows Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred Burrows Trucking & Excavating · MSHA ID 3002145
    Abandoned
  7. Burrows Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred Burrows · MSHA ID 3002753
    Abandoned
  8. Cal'S Gear & Auto Parts Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cal'S Gear & Auto Parts Inc · MSHA ID 3002905
    Abandoned
  9. Cassville Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · T J Madden Construction Company · MSHA ID 3003018
    Abandoned
  10. Chieftain Portable Power Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zielinski's Asphalt · MSHA ID 3003747
    Abandoned
  11. Coleman Screener S1276
    Surface metal/non-metal · DJ Excavating · MSHA ID 3004039
    Abandoned
  12. Coleman Screener S1277
    Surface metal/non-metal · DJ Excavating · MSHA ID 3004040
    Abandoned
  13. Coonrod Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oscar Coonrod · MSHA ID 3002305
    Abandoned
  14. Craig Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Universal Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 3000876
    Abandoned
  15. Dixon Road
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Vienna · MSHA ID 3004088
    Abandoned
  16. DORF MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · ADIRONDACK STONE PRODUCTS, LTD · MSHA ID 3003402
    Abandoned
  17. Empire Aggregates Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Empire Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 3002700
    Abandoned
  18. EXTEC S-5 SER# 12022
    Surface metal/non-metal · HARVEY MATERIALS CORPORATION · MSHA ID 3003718
    Abandoned
  19. Forestport
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates New York LLC · MSHA ID 3003058
    Abandoned
  20. Hanicker Bros Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aikens Const of Rome Inc · MSHA ID 3000890
    Abandoned
  21. Heald Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oneida County-Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 3002300
    Abandoned
  22. LSG 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ludlow's Sand & Gravel Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 3004115
    Abandoned
  23. Madden Boonville Fitch Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · T.J. Madden Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3000863
    Abandoned
  24. MATT'S GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · MATT'S GRAVEL · MSHA ID 3003415
    Abandoned
  25. Mc Donald Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dale Mc Donald · MSHA ID 3002304
    Abandoned
  26. Meagher Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Florence Highway Dept · MSHA ID 3002205
    Abandoned
  27. Morse Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Vienna Highway Dept · MSHA ID 3002256
    Abandoned
  28. Murray'S Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Murray'S Paving Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002545
    Abandoned
  29. Nordberg Plant #1 SN #R17607212003
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Lee · MSHA ID 3003761
    Abandoned
  30. Northern Oneida County Sanitary Landfill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oneida County Dept Of Highways · MSHA ID 3002338
    Abandoned
  31. O M I #1 Commercial
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oneida Materials Company · MSHA ID 3002721
    Abandoned
  32. Oswego Road Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Payne Construction & Excavating, LLC · MSHA ID 3004193
    Abandoned
  33. PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bartell Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003187
    Abandoned
  34. Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oneida County-Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 3002242
    Abandoned
  35. Plant #1b-Sperry Hill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eastern Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 3002963
    Abandoned
  36. Plant No 12
    Surface metal/non-metal · Special Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3002323
    Abandoned
  37. Plant No 16
    Surface metal/non-metal · Special Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3002325
    Abandoned
  38. Plant No 8
    Surface metal/non-metal · Special Aggregates Corp · MSHA ID 3002322
    Abandoned
  39. Portable Inertia Crusher SN# 99634048
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alliance Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3003722
    Abandoned
  40. Prospect Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harvey Materials Corp. · MSHA ID 3003449
    Abandoned
  41. Quarry Plant #6
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alliance Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002724
    Abandoned
  42. Reber Road Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Morrison · MSHA ID 3002238
    Abandoned
  43. Remsen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harvey Materials Corp · MSHA ID 3003448
    Abandoned
  44. Schallenberg Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · D. A. Schallenberg Construction · MSHA ID 3003784
    Abandoned
  45. SHAMROCK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · JBS DIRT, INC. · MSHA ID 3003502
    Abandoned
  46. Sly Hill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alliance Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3003147
    Abandoned
  47. Spear Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Talson & Talarico Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3002321
    Abandoned
  48. STEPHAN PIT #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · W H Stephan Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3000922
    Abandoned
  49. Stokes Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alliance Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002818
    Abandoned
  50. Swamp Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Remson Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002168
    Abandoned
  51. Thomas Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Boonville · MSHA ID 3002048
    Abandoned
  52. TOMAS' PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · HOYTE'S CONCRETE PRODS. INC. · MSHA ID 3003401
    Abandoned
  53. Town of Steuben Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Steuben · MSHA ID 3003705
    Abandoned
  54. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Trenton Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002049
    Abandoned
  55. TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · TOWN OF VIENNA · MSHA ID 3003438
    Abandoned
  56. Trenton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eastern Rock Products Inc · MSHA ID 3002749
    Abandoned
  57. Universal Ser #119x27
    Surface metal/non-metal · David Eckler · MSHA ID 3003687
    Abandoned
  58. Vernon Gravel Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Vernon Highway Dept · MSHA ID 3002098
    Abandoned
  59. Wagner Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Ohio · MSHA ID 3003605
    Abandoned
  60. Woods Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert H Burrows Jr · MSHA ID 3002276
    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 106
Gravel Pit 17
Sand Pit 17
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Disturbed Surface 4
Quarry 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Open Pit Mine 1
Gravel Pit 1
Quarry 1
Borrow 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.