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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Otsego County, New York

Otsego County, New York has 179 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1994. MSHA's register carries 41 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Otsego 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)
179
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
41
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits24 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1994 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
    92 51.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    87 48.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned41 on register
  1. Bice Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bice Gravel Mine · MSHA ID 3003231
    Abandoned
  2. BOUTON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003105
    Abandoned
  3. Broe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Oneonta · MSHA ID 3002698
    Abandoned
  4. Broe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bundy Excavating · MSHA ID 3002699
    Abandoned
  5. Days Gravel Bank
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Otsego Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002759
    Abandoned
  6. Ellis Road Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steven Fairchild Bluestone · MSHA ID 3004031
    Abandoned
  7. Fintec 570 Screen #200657021933413145
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003778
    Abandoned
  8. Galley'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Morris Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002933
    Abandoned
  9. General Crushed Stone Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Crushed Stone Company · MSHA ID 3000213
    Abandoned
  10. Golja
    Surface metal/non-metal · Head Excavation LLC · MSHA ID 3003955
    Abandoned
  11. Harvey'S
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harvey Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3001278
    Abandoned
  12. HULL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Hartwick · MSHA ID 3002736
    Abandoned
  13. KMC West Edmeston
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burrell's Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003935
    Abandoned
  14. Knapp Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cobleskill Stone Products Inc · MSHA ID 3003027
    Abandoned
  15. KOLMAN PORTABLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Morris Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002932
    Abandoned
  16. Metos 2.8 serial # 78463
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003941
    Abandoned
  17. Metso 3.5 serial # 78765
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003719
    Abandoned
  18. Metso 3.5 serial # 79034
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003802
    Abandoned
  19. Metso ST2.8 serial # 78365
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand and Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003861
    Abandoned
  20. METSO ST2.8 SERIAL # 79998
    Surface metal/non-metal · SEWARD SAND & GRAVEL INC. · MSHA ID 3003817
    Abandoned
  21. Metso ST272 Screen #R2721525
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003690
    Abandoned
  22. METSO ST3.5 SERIAL # 78177
    Surface metal/non-metal · SEWARD SAND & GRAVEL INC. · MSHA ID 3003953
    Abandoned
  23. Otego Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Burton F Clark Inc · MSHA ID 3002728
    Abandoned
  24. Pegson Jaw Crusher QM021446
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003655
    Abandoned
  25. PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Butternuts · MSHA ID 3002780
    Abandoned
  26. Powerscreen 408 serial # 6700586
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003720
    Abandoned
  27. Powerscreen Commander 408 ser#6702017
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003653
    Abandoned
  28. Powerscreen Mark II serial# 5106553
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 3003950
    Abandoned
  29. Robert Ackley Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert Ackley Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003226
    Abandoned
  30. ROSS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · SEWARD SAND & GRAVEL INC · MSHA ID 3003469
    Abandoned
  31. SEWARD SAND & GRAVEL SCHUMAN
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003039
    Abandoned
  32. Tauzel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Decatur · MSHA ID 3002939
    Abandoned
  33. Terex Warrior 1400 #12202242
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seward Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3003689
    Abandoned
  34. Tooney Bank
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Middlefield · MSHA ID 3002937
    Abandoned
  35. Town of Worcester Gravel Bank
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Worcester Highway · MSHA ID 3003945
    Abandoned
  36. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Springfield · MSHA ID 3002940
    Abandoned
  37. Town Source
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Cherry Valley · MSHA ID 3002938
    Abandoned
  38. Unadilla Concrete Products Co
    Surface metal/non-metal · Unadilla Concrete Prods Co Sand And · MSHA ID 3001069
    Abandoned
  39. Waste Recovery Enterprises LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waste Recovery Ent. · MSHA ID 3002424
    Abandoned
  40. Wright Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Burlington Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002756
    Abandoned
  41. WUST PIT PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · WUST CONSTRUCTION · MSHA ID 3003404
    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 82
Gravel Pit 36
Gravel Pit 15
Shale Pit 15
Sand and Gravel Pit 6
Disturbed Surface 6
Shale Pit 5
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Quarry 4
Sand Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
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.