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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Orange County, New York

Orange County, New York has 122 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1902–1981, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 8 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 32 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Orange 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)
122
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
32
8 features carry a name0 prospect pits21 quadrangle maps, published 1902–1981 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
    1 0.8%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    79 64.8%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    42 34.4%
Named features on the maps8 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Bull Mine Mine
Bull Mine Mine
Bull Mine Mine
Duchess Quarry Quarry
Hogan Camp Mine Mine
Hogen Camp Mine Mine Shaft
Old Redback Mine Open Pit Mine
Scott Mine Mine

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 Abandoned32 on register
  1. A & R MATERIALS
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & R Materials · MSHA ID 3003372
    Abandoned
  2. A.J.M. SAND & STONE INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · A J M Sand & Stone Inc · MSHA ID 3003059
    Abandoned
  3. AAA SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aaa Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003000
    Abandoned
  4. Blooming Grove Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Lombardi Inc · MSHA ID 3001717
    Abandoned
  5. COLEMAN PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ward Pavements Inc · MSHA ID 3003306
    Abandoned
  6. Cone1
    Surface metal/non-metal · E Tetz & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3003835
    Abandoned
  7. EMPIRE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tilcon New York Inc · MSHA ID 3001692
    Abandoned
  8. Extec C-12
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boyce Excavating Co Inc · MSHA ID 3003946
    Abandoned
  9. Extec S-5 #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boyce Excavating Co Inc · MSHA ID 3003947
    Abandoned
  10. Extec S-5 #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boyce Excavating Co Inc · MSHA ID 3003948
    Abandoned
  11. GOSHEN PIT AND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ward Pavements Inc · MSHA ID 3001693
    Abandoned
  12. Kakargo Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & G Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3001191
    Abandoned
  13. MAYBROOK MATERIALS PLANT #80
    Surface metal/non-metal · Callanan Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3002253
    Abandoned
  14. Mc Kee Brothers Inc Bloomingburg Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Kee Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3001009
    Abandoned
  15. Mc Kee Brothers Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Kee Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3001708
    Abandoned
  16. Merion Blue Grass Sod Farm
    Surface metal/non-metal · Merion Blue Grass Sod Farm · MSHA ID 3002531
    Abandoned
  17. Middle Hope Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gerentine & Cutrone · MSHA ID 3001603
    Abandoned
  18. Orange County Materials Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Orange County Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 3003464
    Abandoned
  19. Otter Road Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Neelytown Development Corp · MSHA ID 3002252
    Abandoned
  20. Peenpack Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peenpack Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002711
    Abandoned
  21. Pine Island Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Chas-Dick Quarries Company · MSHA ID 3002472
    Abandoned
  22. Plum Point Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Windsor Building Supplies Co Inc · MSHA ID 3001002
    Abandoned
  23. POWERSCREEN PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ward Pavements Inc · MSHA ID 3003305
    Abandoned
  24. S5000
    Surface metal/non-metal · E Tetz & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3003834
    Abandoned
  25. Sandvik CJ613 sn: 0990j18068
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lopke Quarries Inc. · MSHA ID 3004108
    Abandoned
  26. Scott Aggregates Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scott Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 3003017
    Abandoned
  27. Sterling Peat
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sterling Forest Development Corp · MSHA ID 3000620
    Abandoned
  28. STONY FORD GRAVEL BANK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forest Glen Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3003175
    Abandoned
  29. Super Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Super Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002713
    Abandoned
  30. Thompson Excavating Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thompson Excavating Company · MSHA ID 3002468
    Abandoned
  31. Troutbrook Enterprise Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Troutbrook Enterprise Inc · MSHA ID 3002278
    Abandoned
  32. WALLKILL GRAVEL BANK
    Surface metal/non-metal · Forest Glen Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3002522
    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 71
Gravel Pit 29
Mine 5
Quarry 5
Gravel Pit 3
Open Pit Mine 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Mine Shaft 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Clay Pit 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 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.