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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Portage County, Ohio

Portage County, Ohio has 93 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1953–1994. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 20 problems in the county, 10 of them not yet reclaimed. 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 Portage 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)
93
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
10
MSHA mines marked abandoned
33
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1953–1994 20 OSMRE problems, 10 reclaimed 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
    13 11.5%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    32 28.3%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    61 54.0%
  4. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    7 6.2%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems20 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Berlin Lake P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Deerfield P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Deerfield P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Deerfield P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Deerfield Farm P1 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Jones Rd Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Newell Ledge Highwall P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Newell Ledge Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Newell Ledge Highwall P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
Palmyra P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Palmyra Northwest P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Palmyra Station P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Palmyra West P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Resh Shaft P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Scotts Corners Shaft P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Williams Road Shafts P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Willow Creek North P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Willow Creek North P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Willow Creek South P1 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Pending
Zinz Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned33 on register
  1. Auburn Aggregates Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & K Kuhnle Company · MSHA ID 3303746
    Abandoned
  2. Aurora Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · The Olen Corporation · MSHA ID 3301398
    Abandoned
  3. Blue Stone Sand & Gravel, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blue Stone Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3304409
    Abandoned
  4. Brimfield Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brimfield Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3303076
    Abandoned
  5. Charlestown Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charlestown Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3301425
    Abandoned
  6. Core Aggregates,LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Core Aggregates, LLC · MSHA ID 3304435
    Abandoned
  7. General Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3301643
    Abandoned
  8. HILLTOP AGGREGATE, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hilltop Aggregate Inc. · MSHA ID 3301514
    Abandoned
  9. Karg Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Karg Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3302556
    Abandoned
  10. Lime Ridge Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gardens of Stone · MSHA ID 3304730
    Abandoned
  11. Lucky Sand & Gravel Co
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lucky Sand & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 3302387
    Abandoned
  12. MILLER'S SAND & GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller'S Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3301564
    Abandoned
  13. MOGADORE MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Enterprises · MSHA ID 3304438
    Abandoned
  14. Munn Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Munn Materials · MSHA ID 3304220
    Abandoned
  15. Patrick's
    Surface metal/non-metal · PATRICK EXCAVATING, INC. · MSHA ID 3304497
    Abandoned
  16. PORTAGE AGGREGATE & SUPPLY LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · PORTAGE AGGREGATE & SUPPLY, LLC · MSHA ID 3304478
    Abandoned
  17. Portage Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp · MSHA ID 3301352
    Abandoned
  18. R A Cruise Sand & Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cruise Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3301617
    Abandoned
  19. Rainbow Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aurora Aggregate Supply · MSHA ID 3304222
    Abandoned
  20. ROCKWELL SAND & GRAVEL, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rockwell Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303979
    Abandoned
  21. S & S Aggregate
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Aggregate · MSHA ID 3301682
    Abandoned
  22. S & S AGGREGATE
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Aggregate · MSHA ID 3302510
    Abandoned
  23. Sand Pit Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Terra Vista Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3301785
    Abandoned
  24. Shalersville North Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shelly Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3301661
    Abandoned
  25. Shelly Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Express Service Inc · MSHA ID 3304746
    Abandoned
  26. Solon Exc. Sand & Gravel, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Solon Excavating Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3302020
    Abandoned
  27. Streetsboro
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shelly Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3304767
    Abandoned
  28. Stroup And Sons Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Stroup & Sons Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3301668
    Abandoned
  29. Suffield Aggregate, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Suffield Aggregate, LLC · MSHA ID 3304558
    Abandoned
  30. Suffield Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3303343
    Abandoned
  31. SUNSHINE SAND COMPANY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sunshine Sand Company · MSHA ID 3304014
    Abandoned
  32. Twinsburg Development Corp.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Twinsburg Development Corp · MSHA ID 3304204
    Abandoned
  33. Valley Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3303859
    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
Sand and Gravel Pit 27
Strip Mine 14
Disturbed Surface 9
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
P2 Vertical Openings 8
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Sand Pit 6
P1 Vertical Openings 5
Sand and Gravel Pit 4
Quarry 4
Quarry 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Gravel Pit 2
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 2
Clay Pit 1
P3 High Wall 1
P1 Subsidence 1
Borrow Pit 1
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 1
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 1
Sand Pit 1
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 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.