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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Schuyler County, New York

Schuyler County, New York has 30 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1942–1978. MSHA's register carries 20 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Schuyler 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)
30
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
20
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 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
    11 36.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    19 63.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned20 on register
  1. Arcangeli Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002361
    Abandoned
  2. BURDETT (GP4)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates New York Inc. · MSHA ID 3001716
    Abandoned
  3. Burdett Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Silverline Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3002982
    Abandoned
  4. David L Perry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Reading Highway Department · MSHA ID 3001838
    Abandoned
  5. Haring Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schuyler County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002140
    Abandoned
  6. Haven'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · A L Blades & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002758
    Abandoned
  7. MACHUGA PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · BLADES CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS CORP · MSHA ID 3002916
    Abandoned
  8. Maple Terrace Gravel Mines
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edger Enterprises of Elmira Inc. NY · MSHA ID 3003551
    Abandoned
  9. PORTABLE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Montour · MSHA ID 3001840
    Abandoned
  10. Searsburg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schuyler County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002141
    Abandoned
  11. STATES GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · States Farms & Construction · MSHA ID 3003311
    Abandoned
  12. TESAH PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · H F Cary & Sons · MSHA ID 3003322
    Abandoned
  13. Town Of Tyrone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Tyrone · MSHA ID 3001837
    Abandoned
  14. Town Source
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Orange · MSHA ID 3001841
    Abandoned
  15. Walrath Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schuyler County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002874
    Abandoned
  16. Watkins Glen Refinery
    Surface metal/non-metal · Akzo Salt Inc · MSHA ID 3000664
    Abandoned
  17. Watkins Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cargill Inc · MSHA ID 3001960
    Abandoned
  18. Wickham Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Catherine · MSHA ID 3001839
    Abandoned
  19. WICKHAM PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Dix · MSHA ID 3001836
    Abandoned
  20. WICKHAM PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schuyler County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002431
    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/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 11
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Gravel Pit 5
Gravel Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Disturbed Surface 2
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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.