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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Tioga County, New York

Tioga County, New York has 27 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1956–1978. MSHA's register carries 33 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Tioga 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)
27
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
33
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1956–1978 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
    8 29.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    19 70.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned33 on register
  1. Albro Lounsberry/Nichols
    Surface metal/non-metal · F S Lopke Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 3002562
    Abandoned
  2. ATHENS TOWNSHIP MUNICIPAL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Athens Township · MSHA ID 3003065
    Abandoned
  3. Bunce Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · H F Cary & Sons · MSHA ID 3000903
    Abandoned
  4. C & C Ready Mix Corporation
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & C Ready Mix Corp · MSHA ID 3000822
    Abandoned
  5. Catatonk Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Parlor City Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 3002410
    Abandoned
  6. Catatonk Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Porter's Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003458
    Abandoned
  7. County Farm
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tioga County Department Of Public Works · MSHA ID 3002352
    Abandoned
  8. Crusher 1206
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mike Mordovancey · MSHA ID 3003035
    Abandoned
  9. DUNNING PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Tier Stone Products LLC · MSHA ID 3003378
    Abandoned
  10. Eagle 1200 Impact crusher s/n: 30522
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lopke Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 3003754
    Abandoned
  11. EAGLE500-05 33D5170 0022047X
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marcus Cole Construction, Inc · MSHA ID 3003536
    Abandoned
  12. Extec Screening Plant Serial # 10144
    Surface metal/non-metal · H L Robinson Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003832
    Abandoned
  13. FORBES PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barney & Dickenson Inc · MSHA ID 3003340
    Abandoned
  14. George Root Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · George Root Const Co · MSHA ID 3002291
    Abandoned
  15. Hayes Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Richford Highway · MSHA ID 3003706
    Abandoned
  16. Kolberg Ser# 2504-130-5076
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town of Berkshire Highway · MSHA ID 3003707
    Abandoned
  17. Kwiatkowski Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Newark Valley · MSHA ID 3002704
    Abandoned
  18. Martin VanEtten Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & M Excavating · MSHA ID 3003820
    Abandoned
  19. Newman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tioga County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002017
    Abandoned
  20. Nichols Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barrett Paving Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3000951
    Abandoned
  21. OWEGO GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Owego · MSHA ID 3002016
    Abandoned
  22. Park Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Nichols Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002019
    Abandoned
  23. Pipher Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Tioga · MSHA ID 3002018
    Abandoned
  24. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Porters' Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3001250
    Abandoned
  25. Porter Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Porters' Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3001823
    Abandoned
  26. Root'S Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E E Root & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002470
    Abandoned
  27. Route 434 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marshland Construction · MSHA ID 3002634
    Abandoned
  28. SIMONDS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tom Simonds & Son Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3003087
    Abandoned
  29. Spencer/ Kosanosku
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gregory & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3002833
    Abandoned
  30. Talmadge Hill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Austin Excavating & Paving Inc · MSHA ID 3003937
    Abandoned
  31. Town Of Barton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Barton · MSHA ID 3002033
    Abandoned
  32. Town Of Spencer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Spencer · MSHA ID 3002217
    Abandoned
  33. TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Candor · MSHA ID 3002510
    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 12
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Gravel Pit 6
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.