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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Onondaga County, New York

Onondaga County, New York has 227 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1939–1993; 8 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 31 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Onondaga 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)
227
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
31
8 features carry a name0 prospect pits22 quadrangle maps, published 1939–1993 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
    72 31.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    144 63.4%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    11 4.8%
Named features on the maps8 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Jamesville Rock Quarry Quarry - Rock area
Waste Beds Mine Dump area
Waste Beds Mine Dump area
Waste Beds Mine Dump area
Waste Beds Mine Dump area
Waste Beds Mine Dump area
Waste Beds Mine Dump area
Waste Beds Mine Dump area

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned31 on register
  1. ALPHA
    Surface metal/non-metal · T H Kinsella Inc · MSHA ID 3002696
    Abandoned
  2. Barrett-Tanner Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002705
    Abandoned
  3. Dwyer
    Surface metal/non-metal · T. H. Kinsella, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003985
    Abandoned
  4. Edwards Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald & Richard Nightingale · MSHA ID 3002188
    Abandoned
  5. Feys Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fey's Gravel Pit LLC · MSHA ID 3003917
    Abandoned
  6. Fiato Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fiato Contracting Corp · MSHA ID 3002297
    Abandoned
  7. Harrison'S Bed
    Surface metal/non-metal · Teazelwood Gardens Inc · MSHA ID 3002814
    Abandoned
  8. Hitchings Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Santaro & Taroson Inc · MSHA ID 3002347
    Abandoned
  9. Hoyt Rd Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003806
    Abandoned
  10. Jamesville Plant
    Facility coal · Otisca Industries Ltd · MSHA ID 3002771
    Abandoned
  11. Jamesville Q & M Or Jamesville Pl
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alpha Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 3000280
    Abandoned
  12. Jamesville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alpha Portland Cement Company · MSHA ID 3002458
    Abandoned
  13. JAMESVILLE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002869
    Abandoned
  14. Kinsella Palladino Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · T H Kinsella Incorporated · MSHA ID 3003392
    Abandoned
  15. Limeledge Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Midstate Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 3002273
    Abandoned
  16. Marcellus Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W F Saunders & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3001589
    Abandoned
  17. Marcellus Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC · MSHA ID 3002600
    Abandoned
  18. Minoa Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Santaro & Taroson Inc · MSHA ID 3002267
    Abandoned
  19. Minoa Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Minoa Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002269
    Abandoned
  20. Perry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Topat Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 3000980
    Abandoned
  21. Power Screen Plant 1400-30327
    Surface metal/non-metal · Syracuse Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3003809
    Abandoned
  22. Power Screen Plant 1400-30611
    Surface metal/non-metal · Syracuse Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3003786
    Abandoned
  23. Quikrete SYR 560
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quikrete Companies Inc · MSHA ID 3003558
    Abandoned
  24. Rock Cut Road
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates New York, Inc. · MSHA ID 3000051
    Abandoned
  25. Sovereign Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bianchi Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3003031
    Abandoned
  26. Stump Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald J Smith · MSHA ID 3002187
    Abandoned
  27. Taylor Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Basile Construction Company · MSHA ID 3002521
    Abandoned
  28. Tesab RK643
    Surface metal/non-metal · Syracuse Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 3003824
    Abandoned
  29. Tully Brine Wells
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allied Corp-Allied Chemical Company · MSHA ID 3000666
    Abandoned
  30. Walburger Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W F Saunders & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002535
    Abandoned
  31. Whiting W98/9/4048 Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Syracuse Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 3003857
    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 67
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 57
Quarry 28
Gravel Pit 27
Disturbed Surface 12
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Mine Dump 7
Quarry - Rock 5
Tailings - Pond 4
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Quarry 2
Sand Pit 2
Quarry - Rock 2
Sand Pit 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Clay Pit 1
Other counties in New YorkAll counties →
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.