Mining Incidents
Search Operators Mines Alerts Research Controllers Fatalgrams About
Countries
Peru Chile
English Español
Abandoned mines › Ohio
Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Summit County, Ohio

Summit County, Ohio has 113 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1901–1994; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 45 problems in the county, 4 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 19 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Summit 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)
113
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
4
MSHA mines marked abandoned
19
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1901–1994 45 OSMRE problems, 41 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
    8 5.1%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    25 15.8%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    82 51.9%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    6 3.8%
  5. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    37 23.4%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Turkeyfoot Mine Open Pit Mine

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems45 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Abernathy P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Abernathy Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Akron Canton Airport Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Barberton Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Barberton Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Blind Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Calvin House Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Calvin Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Calvin Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Chapel Hill P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Chapel Hill South P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Chapel Hill South P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Clinton Nw P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Firestone County Club P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Firestone Park East P1 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Firestone Park East P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Firestone Park East P2 Dangerous Slides Reclamation Completed
Firestone Park East P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
Glockner Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Gottwalt Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Gottwalt, Mooney Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Hametown Road P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Hametown Road P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Hametown Road P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hametown Road Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Huffman Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Jaber Mine Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Mitchell Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Mitchell, Roberts Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Moran Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Oh - Summit - Fea P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Portage Lakes P1 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Portage Lakes P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Portage Lakes P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ramsey Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Robinson Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Stripe Subsidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Taylor Road P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Vanderhoof Road P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Vanderhoof Road P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Vanderhoof Road P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Vanderhoof Road P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Wise Road P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Wise Road P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption Reclamation Completed
Wise Road Subsidence P1 Subsidence 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 Abandoned19 on register
  1. A-1 ALL OHIO SAND & GRAVEL CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · A-1 All Ohio Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3304141
    Abandoned
  2. Acken St 24
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverside Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3301628
    Abandoned
  3. Barberton Limestone Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Ppg Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3301349
    Abandoned
  4. Barberton Sand Plant & Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ppg Industries Inc · MSHA ID 3300140
    Abandoned
  5. Chapel Hill Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Inc · MSHA ID 3304217
    Abandoned
  6. Copley Development
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Inc · MSHA ID 3304061
    Abandoned
  7. Copley Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Copley Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3301506
    Abandoned
  8. FLESHER SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Flesher Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3301477
    Abandoned
  9. Greensburg Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greensburg Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3303813
    Abandoned
  10. Lerkis Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lerkis Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3303503
    Abandoned
  11. Minor Road Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackie Lee Ltd Inc · MSHA ID 3302919
    Abandoned
  12. Northern Ohio Materials Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Ohio Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3302521
    Abandoned
  13. PLANT # 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rubber City Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3301632
    Abandoned
  14. Plant #2 Dredge & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Damon-Hickey Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3303052
    Abandoned
  15. Portage Lakes Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Portage Lakes Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3301607
    Abandoned
  16. S & S AGGREGATE
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Aggregate · MSHA ID 3301802
    Abandoned
  17. Twin Lakes Sand Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Twin Lakes Sand Inc · MSHA ID 3303031
    Abandoned
  18. TWINSBURG SAND & GRAVEL CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ohio Bulk Transfer Company · MSHA ID 3304412
    Abandoned
  19. Twinsburg Silica Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Twinsburg Silica Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3301945
    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 33
P1 Subsidence 30
Gravel Pit 21
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 12
Disturbed Surface 9
Sand and Gravel Pit 9
Sand and Gravel Pit 7
P1 Vertical Openings 5
Tailings - Undifferentiated 5
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
P2 Vertical Openings 2
P2 Polluted Water: Human Consumption 2
P2 Subsidence 2
Sand Pit 2
Clay Pit 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Clay Pit 1
Open Pit Mine 1
P1 Dangerous Slides 1
P2 Dangerous Slides 1
P3 Water Problems 1
Sand Pit 1
Tailings - Pond 1
P1 Portals 1
Other counties in OhioAll counties →
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.