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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Chittenden County, Vermont

Chittenden County, Vermont has 113 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1944–1987. MSHA's register carries 30 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Chittenden 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
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
30
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1944–1987 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
    30 26.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    83 73.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned30 on register
  1. AIRPORT QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · S D Ireland Bros. · MSHA ID 4300403
    Abandoned
  2. Bushey Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ormond Bushey & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4300334
    Abandoned
  3. Essex Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frank W Whitcomb Construction Corp · MSHA ID 4300368
    Abandoned
  4. F W W AIRPORT QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frank W Whitcomb Construction Corp · MSHA ID 4300521
    Abandoned
  5. Hills Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hinesburg Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300274
    Abandoned
  6. Hinesburg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Agency Of Transporation · MSHA ID 4300273
    Abandoned
  7. Hinesburg Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R J Colton Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300375
    Abandoned
  8. Jackson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert A Jackson · MSHA ID 4300229
    Abandoned
  9. Jenkins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gerald Jenkins · MSHA ID 4300483
    Abandoned
  10. Kirby Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hinesburg Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300303
    Abandoned
  11. Lafreniere Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ronald Lafreniere · MSHA ID 4300354
    Abandoned
  12. Milton Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reggie Smith Excavating · MSHA ID 4300575
    Abandoned
  13. MILTON SAND, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Milton Sand Inc · MSHA ID 4300442
    Abandoned
  14. MORSE SAND CO.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morse Sand Company · MSHA ID 4300512
    Abandoned
  15. North Williston Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ormond Bushey & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4300378
    Abandoned
  16. Perry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Leo Mathieu Excavation · MSHA ID 4300227
    Abandoned
  17. Pike Industries - C642
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300587
    Abandoned
  18. Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ormond Bushey & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4300471
    Abandoned
  19. Powhatan Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Powhatan Ferrisburgh LLC · MSHA ID 4300759
    Abandoned
  20. Redmond Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hinesburg Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300293
    Abandoned
  21. Rockster Recycler
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frank W Whitcomb Construction Corporation · MSHA ID 4300745
    Abandoned
  22. ROWLEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Rowley · MSHA ID 4300513
    Abandoned
  23. S D Ireland Mobile Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · S D Ireland Bros. · MSHA ID 4300631
    Abandoned
  24. S T Griswold Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · S T Griswold & Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300522
    Abandoned
  25. S. T. GRISWOLD PIT & MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · S T Griswold & Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300117
    Abandoned
  26. ST DENIS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ray Weston Excavating · MSHA ID 4300317
    Abandoned
  27. TOWN OF HINESBURG PIT AND MILL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Hinesburg · MSHA ID 4300209
    Abandoned
  28. Tracy Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hinesburg Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4300292
    Abandoned
  29. VARIN'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · VARIN'S GRAVEL PIT, LLC · MSHA ID 4300637
    Abandoned
  30. Watkins Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Frank W Whitcomb Construction Corp · MSHA ID 4300372
    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 52
Quarry 18
Disturbed Surface 16
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 14
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 13
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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.