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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Wayne County, New York

Wayne County, New York has 123 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1978. MSHA's register carries 36 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Wayne 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)
123
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
36
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1978 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
    77 62.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    46 37.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned36 on register
  1. Arliss Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arliss Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3003171
    Abandoned
  2. BACON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · MONTEMORANO BROTHERS · MSHA ID 3003812
    Abandoned
  3. Bauer'S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Lyons · MSHA ID 3002438
    Abandoned
  4. Bauers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wayne County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002439
    Abandoned
  5. Beckens Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beckens Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3001902
    Abandoned
  6. Daansen Rd Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Syracuse Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3003382
    Abandoned
  7. Dendis Newark Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dendis Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3003254
    Abandoned
  8. Dickinson And Everdyke Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dickinson & Everdyke Inc · MSHA ID 3002206
    Abandoned
  9. Graf Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Art Graf Inc · MSHA ID 3001795
    Abandoned
  10. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Marion · MSHA ID 3001888
    Abandoned
  11. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Walworth · MSHA ID 3001903
    Abandoned
  12. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Macedon · MSHA ID 3001904
    Abandoned
  13. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Sodus · MSHA ID 3001905
    Abandoned
  14. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Butler · MSHA ID 3001907
    Abandoned
  15. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Wolcott · MSHA ID 3001909
    Abandoned
  16. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Rose · MSHA ID 3001910
    Abandoned
  17. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Huron · MSHA ID 3001911
    Abandoned
  18. Highway Department Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Galen · MSHA ID 3001912
    Abandoned
  19. Highway Department Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Arcadia · MSHA ID 3001886
    Abandoned
  20. Kleemann MC110 Jaw K117.0044 #940
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cold Spring Construction Company · MSHA ID 3004101
    Abandoned
  21. LESSORD FARM SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · LESSORD FARM SAND & GRAVEL · MSHA ID 3003406
    Abandoned
  22. MACEDON II PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elam Sand & Gravel Corp · MSHA ID 3002996
    Abandoned
  23. Macedon Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Regional Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002402
    Abandoned
  24. MONTEMORANO PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Santo Montemorano Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 3000923
    Abandoned
  25. Newark Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dolomite Group · MSHA ID 3001130
    Abandoned
  26. Palmyra Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · New York State Department Of Transportation · MSHA ID 3002139
    Abandoned
  27. Plant No 7
    Surface metal/non-metal · B R Dewitt Inc · MSHA ID 3002082
    Abandoned
  28. Red Creek
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates New York Inc. · MSHA ID 3002334
    Abandoned
  29. Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wayne County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002685
    Abandoned
  30. Smith Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gregory P Smith · MSHA ID 3003015
    Abandoned
  31. SMITH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eastern Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3002662
    Abandoned
  32. SODUS PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates New York Inc. · MSHA ID 3000054
    Abandoned
  33. Van Norway Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wayne County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3002665
    Abandoned
  34. Wayneport Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dickinson & Everdyke Inc · MSHA ID 3002635
    Abandoned
  35. Wilcox Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dickinson & Everdyke Inc · MSHA ID 3002394
    Abandoned
  36. Wolcott Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Syracuse Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3002683
    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 47
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 36
Disturbed Surface 19
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 11
Gravel Pit 4
Gravel Pit 3
Quarry 2
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.