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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Warren County, Pennsylvania

Warren County, Pennsylvania has 62 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1936–1981; 1 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Warren 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)
62
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1936–1981 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
    19 30.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    43 69.4%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Kinzua Coal Mine Coal 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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. Branstrom Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bloomgren Enterprises · MSHA ID 3606034
    Abandoned
  2. Dick Cable Gravel Products
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dick Cable Gravel Products · MSHA ID 3605704
    Abandoned
  3. GENERAL CONCRETE PRODUCTS
    Surface metal/non-metal · I A Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3603181
    Abandoned
  4. Griggs Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harold Griggs · MSHA ID 3605705
    Abandoned
  5. Grunderville Landfill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Warren County Solid Waste Authority · MSHA ID 3607827
    Abandoned
  6. John D Anderson
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Anderson Construction · MSHA ID 3609255
    Abandoned
  7. L W Crosscut Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · L W Crosscut · MSHA ID 3604802
    Abandoned
  8. McCloskey Impact Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Temple Portable Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 3610070
    Abandoned
  9. Michael Zurkan Jr
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michael Zurkan Jr · MSHA ID 3607811
    Abandoned
  10. Morrison Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tionesta Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3606104
    Abandoned
  11. Neiswonger Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Neiswonger Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3610202
    Abandoned
  12. Perrin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pittsfield Township Supervisors · MSHA ID 3605707
    Abandoned
  13. Pittsfield
    Surface metal/non-metal · I A Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3604348
    Abandoned
  14. Reed ScreenAll-Model RD-40 256387
    Surface metal/non-metal · Farmington Twp · MSHA ID 3610196
    Abandoned
  15. RUSSELL PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · I A Construction Corporation · MSHA ID 3603226
    Abandoned
  16. Sugar Grove Township Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sugar Grove Township · MSHA ID 3606463
    Abandoned
  17. TIDIOUTE PIT AND MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · I A Construction Corp · MSHA ID 3604670
    Abandoned
  18. Toplovich Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Toplovich Gravel · MSHA ID 3605706
    Abandoned
  19. Turner & Bailey Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · David Turner & C F Bailey Company · MSHA ID 3606151
    Abandoned
  20. YEAGLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yeagle Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3608791
    Abandoned
  21. Yeagles Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · George W Yeagle · MSHA ID 3603205
    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 35
Disturbed Surface 12
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Gravel Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Coal Mine 1
Quarry 1
Quarry 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.