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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Wayne County, Pennsylvania

Wayne County, Pennsylvania has 138 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1946–1999. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 12 problems in the county, all of them reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 39 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Wayne 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)
138
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
39
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1946–1999 12 OSMRE problems, 12 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
    1 0.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    3 2.0%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    135 90.0%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    6 4.0%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    2 1.3%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    3 2.0%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems12 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Forest City East P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Forest City East P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Forest City East P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Forest City East P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Forest City East P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Forest City East P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Forest City Station East P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Forest City Station East P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Forest City Station East P1 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Forest City Station East P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Preston Park P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Preston Park P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 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 Abandoned39 on register
  1. Aldenville
    Surface metal/non-metal · Explosive Services, Inc. · MSHA ID 3609673
    Abandoned
  2. B & E Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Litts & Son Stone Company · MSHA ID 3609715
    Abandoned
  3. Baka Farm Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Endless Mountain Stone Company · MSHA ID 3609633
    Abandoned
  4. Blooming Grove Sand and Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blooming Grove Sand and Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3609430
    Abandoned
  5. Catskill Stone Limited Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Catskill Stone Limited Inc. · MSHA ID 3609270
    Abandoned
  6. Chicosky Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tomkins Bluestone Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3609100
    Abandoned
  7. Fraser Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MINERALS, LLC · MSHA ID 3609670
    Abandoned
  8. GSI Screening & Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Grassie & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 3609947
    Abandoned
  9. Hidden Valley
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tompkins Bluestone Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3609104
    Abandoned
  10. Honesdale Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Weidner Concrete · MSHA ID 3607001
    Abandoned
  11. Krempansky Construction
    Surface metal/non-metal · Krempasky Construction · MSHA ID 3608264
    Abandoned
  12. Lake Ariel Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC · MSHA ID 3603196
    Abandoned
  13. Larry Cutting Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Larry Cutting Stone · MSHA ID 3609789
    Abandoned
  14. Leykamm Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dave Barnes · MSHA ID 3609412
    Abandoned
  15. MATT KILMER FLAGSTONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · MATT KILMER FLAGSTONE LLC · MSHA ID 3610214
    Abandoned
  16. Middle Creek Quarry Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Middle Creek Quarry Inc LLC · MSHA ID 3609146
    Abandoned
  17. Peterson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnston & Rhodes Bluestone Co. · MSHA ID 3609101
    Abandoned
  18. Pinnacle Bluestone
    Facility metal/non-metal · Pinnacle Bluestone · MSHA ID 3609859
    Abandoned
  19. PT Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · PT Stone · MSHA ID 3609877
    Abandoned
  20. Roberts Thomas Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lake Ladore Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 3607202
    Abandoned
  21. Schrader Springer Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Como Stone · MSHA ID 3609361
    Abandoned
  22. Sherman Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Phillips Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 3610084
    Abandoned
  23. SHERMAN QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MINERALS, LLC · MSHA ID 3609612
    Abandoned
  24. Sherman Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnston & Rhodes Bluestone Co. · MSHA ID 3609087
    Abandoned
  25. Shursky Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Pykus Excavating Inc. · MSHA ID 3610385
    Abandoned
  26. Springer Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bill Pykus Excavating Inc. · MSHA ID 3609933
    Abandoned
  27. Stanton #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bruce R. Stanton Sole Proprietor · MSHA ID 3609077
    Abandoned
  28. Star Pond - Willoway 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Star Pond LLC · MSHA ID 3609626
    Abandoned
  29. Star Pond-Willoway Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Star Pond LLC · MSHA ID 3609139
    Abandoned
  30. Starrucca Creek Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Endless Mountain Stone Co · MSHA ID 3610254
    Abandoned
  31. Sugar Loaf
    Surface metal/non-metal · Paul R Gustin · MSHA ID 3610370
    Abandoned
  32. Sugarloaf
    Surface metal/non-metal · E & C Stone · MSHA ID 3609935
    Abandoned
  33. Toten Jr. Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tompkins Bluestone Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3609102
    Abandoned
  34. Toten Sr. Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tompkins Bluestone Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 3609103
    Abandoned
  35. WAYCO SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wayco Inc · MSHA ID 3608671
    Abandoned
  36. Wayne Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC · MSHA ID 3600268
    Abandoned
  37. Wicki Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wicki Wholesale Stone Inc. · MSHA ID 3609783
    Abandoned
  38. Wildcat Swamp
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wayne Peat Humus Company · MSHA ID 3602831
    Abandoned
  39. Winterdale I Only
    Surface metal/non-metal · ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MINERALS, LLC · MSHA ID 3609065
    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
Quarry 61
Gravel Pit 37
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 14
Gravel Pit 13
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Shale Pit 3
P1 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 3
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 2
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
P1 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Quarry 1
P1 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
P3 Gobs 1
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 1
P1 Vertical Openings 1
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 1
P1 Surface Burning 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Other counties in PennsylvaniaAll 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.