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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Ontario County, New York

Ontario County, New York has 130 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1978. MSHA's register carries 57 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Ontario 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)
130
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
57
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1942–1978 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
    70 53.8%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    60 46.2%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned57 on register
  1. Baughman Materials And Concrete Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baughman Materials & Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3000945
    Abandoned
  2. Bishop Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Canadice · MSHA ID 3002795
    Abandoned
  3. Boyce Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of South Bristol · MSHA ID 3002895
    Abandoned
  4. Bristol Springs Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3001981
    Abandoned
  5. Cedarapids MVP450 45636
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith's Heavy Equipment, Inc. · MSHA ID 3004077
    Abandoned
  6. Conn Road
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elam Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 3002762
    Abandoned
  7. Connors Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert A Connors Paving Inc · MSHA ID 3001391
    Abandoned
  8. Deer Run Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elam Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 3000867
    Abandoned
  9. East Bloomfield Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J G Turner Inc · MSHA ID 3002412
    Abandoned
  10. EAST BLOOMFIELD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Canandaigua · MSHA ID 3002411
    Abandoned
  11. EAST BLOOMFIELD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bristol · MSHA ID 3002414
    Abandoned
  12. FARMINGTON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dendis Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3002878
    Abandoned
  13. Genesee Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Genesee Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002215
    Abandoned
  14. Gp-11
    Surface metal/non-metal · B R Dewitt Inc · MSHA ID 3000924
    Abandoned
  15. Hawkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R L Bates & Associates Inc · MSHA ID 3002656
    Abandoned
  16. Holcomb Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jeff Huff Inc · MSHA ID 3001398
    Abandoned
  17. Jansen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Manchester · MSHA ID 3001866
    Abandoned
  18. Kleeman MC110Z #K0040221
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elam Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003876
    Abandoned
  19. Kleemann Jaw Crusher 120
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cold Spring Construction Company · MSHA ID 3004081
    Abandoned
  20. Long Branch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malcuria Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3001182
    Abandoned
  21. Mark Colf Excavation Contracting Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mark Colf Excavation Contracting Inc. · MSHA ID 3003540
    Abandoned
  22. Mc Carthy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Victor · MSHA ID 3002169
    Abandoned
  23. Mendon Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Spallina Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3002764
    Abandoned
  24. MONROE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monroe Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003233
    Abandoned
  25. Oaks Corners Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dendis Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3000935
    Abandoned
  26. OLMSTEAD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & D Gravel Products Company · MSHA ID 3002405
    Abandoned
  27. Pegson 1000 603B14728
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith's Heavy Equipment, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003989
    Abandoned
  28. Phelps Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B R Dewitt Inc · MSHA ID 3002530
    Abandoned
  29. PHELPS SAND & GRAVEL INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Phelps Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003235
    Abandoned
  30. PINE VIEW FARM PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Guy Rogers · MSHA ID 3001982
    Abandoned
  31. Pit #1 Nuggett
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malcuria Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3000925
    Abandoned
  32. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Richmond · MSHA ID 3002748
    Abandoned
  33. PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Middlesex · MSHA ID 3001879
    Abandoned
  34. PORTABLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · DENDIS SAND & GRAVEL INC · MSHA ID 3003194
    Abandoned
  35. PORTABLE PLANT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & D Gravel Products Company · MSHA ID 3003075
    Abandoned
  36. Powerscreen Trakpactor COMEB9606
    Surface metal/non-metal · Christopher J Construction LLC · MSHA ID 3003978
    Abandoned
  37. RICHMOND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Richmond · MSHA ID 3002773
    Abandoned
  38. Saxby Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · Henning Brothers Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 3002406
    Abandoned
  39. Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · J G Turner Inc · MSHA ID 3002214
    Abandoned
  40. Shafer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Richmond · MSHA ID 3002761
    Abandoned
  41. Shaffer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of West Bloomfield Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002815
    Abandoned
  42. Smith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Earnest Smith Sand & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 3000869
    Abandoned
  43. Terex Finlay C1545 TRX1545KOMG42135
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith's Heavy Equipment, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003987
    Abandoned
  44. Terex Finlay C1550P TRX1550CKOMH74800
    Surface metal/non-metal · Smith's Heavy Equipment, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003988
    Abandoned
  45. Town Of Bristol Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Bristol · MSHA ID 3001932
    Abandoned
  46. TOWN OF NAPLES GRAVEL & SAND
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Naples · MSHA ID 3002747
    Abandoned
  47. Town Of Waterloo
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Waterloo · MSHA ID 3001868
    Abandoned
  48. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Phelps · MSHA ID 3002564
    Abandoned
  49. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Naples · MSHA ID 3003110
    Abandoned
  50. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Italy · MSHA ID 3003111
    Abandoned
  51. Trickey Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Tiberio Inc · MSHA ID 3002130
    Abandoned
  52. VANCAMP PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Phelps · MSHA ID 3002563
    Abandoned
  53. Victor Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Victor Gravel Corp. · MSHA ID 3003967
    Abandoned
  54. Victor Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monroe Contractors Equipment Inc · MSHA ID 3002232
    Abandoned
  55. Wilcox Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Richard Wilcox Gravel · MSHA ID 3002419
    Abandoned
  56. Wilcox Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Italy · MSHA ID 3002785
    Abandoned
  57. Willowbrook Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willowbrook Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3002227
    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 42
Gravel Pit 29
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 26
Disturbed Surface 23
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Gravel Pit 5
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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.