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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Crawford County, Pennsylvania has 167 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1923–1990, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 24 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Crawford 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)
167
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
24
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits21 quadrangle maps, published 1923–1990 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
    1 0.6%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    11 6.6%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    155 92.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned24 on register
  1. C/R Portable Crusher Deckard
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3608779
    Abandoned
  2. Conneaut Lake Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Emlenton Limestone Company Inc · MSHA ID 3605711
    Abandoned
  3. Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. Hunter Inc. · MSHA ID 3608244
    Abandoned
  4. Donovan Stone Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donovan Stone Company · MSHA ID 3609244
    Abandoned
  5. Eagle Crusher 500 Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete · MSHA ID 3609289
    Abandoned
  6. Edinboro Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoover Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 3606989
    Abandoned
  7. Fintec 540 Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete · MSHA ID 3609850
    Abandoned
  8. FINTEC 570
    Surface metal/non-metal · MEADVILLE REDI MIX CONCRETE · MSHA ID 3610290
    Abandoned
  9. FOUST GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Foust Excavating · MSHA ID 3607712
    Abandoned
  10. George Pit And Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilson Excavating & Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3606924
    Abandoned
  11. Gravel Pit Meadville Redi Mix
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3604192
    Abandoned
  12. L R Glover
    Surface metal/non-metal · L R Glover · MSHA ID 3607726
    Abandoned
  13. Lakeland Sand & Gravel, Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeland Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 3604708
    Abandoned
  14. Mercer Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 3607721
    Abandoned
  15. Plant 201
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wood Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3606918
    Abandoned
  16. Portable Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wood Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3606919
    Abandoned
  17. R Hunter Inc Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · R Hunter Inc · MSHA ID 3608245
    Abandoned
  18. SAM BARNHART
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sam Barnhart · MSHA ID 3608687
    Abandoned
  19. Sand Hill Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arendash Contractor · MSHA ID 3604777
    Abandoned
  20. See's Gravel Pitt #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert C See · MSHA ID 3609368
    Abandoned
  21. Thomas Willrich # 1 Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kimberly McManus · MSHA ID 3609746
    Abandoned
  22. Virgil Foust Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Virgil Foust Excavating · MSHA ID 3606412
    Abandoned
  23. W L Dunn Const Co
    Surface metal/non-metal · W L Dunn Construction Company · MSHA ID 3603229
    Abandoned
  24. WALKER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Watson Enterprises · MSHA ID 3608511
    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 129
Gravel Pit 17
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 5
Strip Mine 4
Sand Pit 2
Disturbed Surface 1
Air Shaft 1
Strip Mine 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.