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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Erie County, Pennsylvania

Erie County, Pennsylvania has 154 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1943–1996. MSHA's register carries 37 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Erie 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)
154
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
37
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits21 quadrangle maps, published 1943–1996 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
    18 11.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    136 88.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned37 on register
  1. CONN PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Albert Conn Sr Trucking · MSHA ID 3608720
    Abandoned
  2. Corry Peat Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Corry Peat Products Company · MSHA ID 3602825
    Abandoned
  3. Depot R64d Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Walmer Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3606162
    Abandoned
  4. Edinboro Gravel Company Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edinboro Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3605192
    Abandoned
  5. ERIE AGGREGATES, INC., PIT & MIL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Erie Aggregates Inc · MSHA ID 3605700
    Abandoned
  6. Erie Sand Steamship Company Sand An
    Surface metal/non-metal · Erie Sand Steamship Company · MSHA ID 3603174
    Abandoned
  7. GIRTS SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Girts Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3608686
    Abandoned
  8. Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eon Ltd · MSHA ID 3607668
    Abandoned
  9. HANAS PIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Erie Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 3608127
    Abandoned
  10. I-110 RSE89157
    Surface metal/non-metal · Girts Sand and Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 3610336
    Abandoned
  11. John W Hollis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John W Hollis Excavating · MSHA ID 3606220
    Abandoned
  12. Kolberg Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hull Excavating · MSHA ID 3610172
    Abandoned
  13. Lincolnville (L1)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waterford Sand & Gravel Co. · MSHA ID 3606382
    Abandoned
  14. Main Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoover Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3604780
    Abandoned
  15. Maybro Materials Edinboro Pit 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Maybro Asphalt Company · MSHA ID 3606661
    Abandoned
  16. Mc Cormick Materials Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Cormick Materials · MSHA ID 3605093
    Abandoned
  17. Munsee Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Munsee Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3608002
    Abandoned
  18. Nicholson Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Adam W Nicholson Incorported · MSHA ID 3606228
    Abandoned
  19. Nickel Plate Sand & Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nickel Plate Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3603207
    Abandoned
  20. Northwest Gravel Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3605097
    Abandoned
  21. Number 2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 3603160
    Abandoned
  22. Over-Lake Sand Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Over-Lake Sand Gravel · MSHA ID 3607640
    Abandoned
  23. PioneerGD30 SN#GD301095
    Surface metal/non-metal · Union Township · MSHA ID 3610449
    Abandoned
  24. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rodger E Niemeyer Sr · MSHA ID 3607701
    Abandoned
  25. Pit #1 & 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · E M Grubbs · MSHA ID 3607698
    Abandoned
  26. PORTABLE PLANT 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Beute & Bliley Inc · MSHA ID 3608655
    Abandoned
  27. PORTABLE PLANT II
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoover Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3607593
    Abandoned
  28. PORTABLE SCREENING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoover Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 3608979
    Abandoned
  29. Portable Wash Plant III
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeland Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 3607639
    Abandoned
  30. Powerscreen Chieftain 1400
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raymond D. Showman & Sons, Inc. · MSHA ID 3610137
    Abandoned
  31. SUMMERVILLE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Advantage Gravel & Topsoil · MSHA ID 3608657
    Abandoned
  32. Tannery Road Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joe Arendash Farm Contractor · MSHA ID 3605092
    Abandoned
  33. Telesmith
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hull Excavating · MSHA ID 3610173
    Abandoned
  34. Troyer 2 Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Erie Aggregates Inc. · MSHA ID 3609062
    Abandoned
  35. WAI Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilkinson Aggregates, Inc. · MSHA ID 3604033
    Abandoned
  36. WEST GREENE SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Greene Sand & Gravel-Div/Afton Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 3604361
    Abandoned
  37. WEST RIDGE GRAVEL CO. PIT AND MI
    Surface metal/non-metal · West Ridge Gravel Company · MSHA ID 3604299
    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 85
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 31
Gravel Pit 15
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Disturbed Surface - Pit 7
Borrow Pit 4
Disturbed Surface 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.