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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Washington County, Vermont

Washington County, Vermont has 114 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1919–1997, including 1 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 20 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 47 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Washington 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)
114
Mine openings
1
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
47
20 features carry a name0 prospect pits19 quadrangle maps, published 1919–1997 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 0.9%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    18 15.8%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    95 83.3%
Named features on the maps20 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry area
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry area
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry area
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry area
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry area
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry area
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry - Rock
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry - Rock
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry - Rock
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry - Rock area
Barre Granite Quarries Quarry - Rock
Granite Quarries Quarry
Granite Quarries Quarry
Granite Quarries Quarry
Granite Quarries Quarry
Marble Quarry Quarry
Marble Quarry Quarry area
Talc Mine Open Pit Mine
Talc Mine Open Pit 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 Abandoned47 on register
  1. 3m Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Middlesex Mineral & Mining Ltd · MSHA ID 4300461
    Abandoned
  2. ALLARD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edmund & Rena Allard · MSHA ID 4300370
    Abandoned
  3. Astec DS5162 Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300697
    Abandoned
  4. Barnes Hill Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Waterbury · MSHA ID 4300251
    Abandoned
  5. Beckley Hill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Charles LePage · MSHA ID 4300109
    Abandoned
  6. BICKFORD'S QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bickford's Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 4300436
    Abandoned
  7. Bullrun Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Northfield-Vt · MSHA ID 4300311
    Abandoned
  8. C12
    Surface metal/non-metal · McCullough Crushing · MSHA ID 4300579
    Abandoned
  9. Carlton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E H Granfield Inc · MSHA ID 4300344
    Abandoned
  10. Carlton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Warren · MSHA ID 4300345
    Abandoned
  11. Cooley Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300098
    Abandoned
  12. Crusher Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooley Asphalt Paving Corp · MSHA ID 4300104
    Abandoned
  13. E L Smith Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Of Ages Corp · MSHA ID 4300025
    Abandoned
  14. FAYSTON TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Fayston · MSHA ID 4300422
    Abandoned
  15. Garan-Teed Quarry & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Garan-Teed Quarries · MSHA ID 4300007
    Abandoned
  16. Greenwood Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dwight Mc Cullough · MSHA ID 4300358
    Abandoned
  17. Hard Rock Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hardrock Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 4300542
    Abandoned
  18. Herring Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Francis W Herring · MSHA ID 4300238
    Abandoned
  19. Kolberg
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Gross Trucking · MSHA ID 4300580
    Abandoned
  20. LAGUE SLATE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · La Gue Inc · MSHA ID 4300420
    Abandoned
  21. MAGWIRE GRANITE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Magwire Granite Llc · MSHA ID 4300518
    Abandoned
  22. Metso HP 300
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. E. Tucker Inc. · MSHA ID 4300596
    Abandoned
  23. Middlesex Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Middlesex · MSHA ID 4300244
    Abandoned
  24. MIDDLESEX PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Agency Of Transporation · MSHA ID 4300245
    Abandoned
  25. Moore Pit^
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Warren · MSHA ID 4300346
    Abandoned
  26. Moretown Pit Vermont Sand & Stone Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Sand & Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4300236
    Abandoned
  27. NEMG Graniteville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northeast Material Group, LLC · MSHA ID 4300711
    Abandoned
  28. Northfield Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · John H Gross · MSHA ID 4300305
    Abandoned
  29. Noyes And Arkley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · E H Granfield Inc · MSHA ID 4300360
    Abandoned
  30. Pike Industries 654/664S Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries, Inc · MSHA ID 4300691
    Abandoned
  31. Pike Industries C601
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300642
    Abandoned
  32. Pike Industries C654/664 Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries · MSHA ID 4300690
    Abandoned
  33. Pike Industries Inc (C612)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300066
    Abandoned
  34. Pike Industries Inc-C604
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300628
    Abandoned
  35. Pike Industries-Power Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries · MSHA ID 4300649
    Abandoned
  36. Pike Industries-Wash Plant 634
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 4300679
    Abandoned
  37. Portable Sand Screen C652
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries, Inc. · MSHA ID 4300621
    Abandoned
  38. Portable Sandscreen C652
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pike Industries Inc · MSHA ID 2700260
    Abandoned
  39. R. E.TUCKER, INC. - BERLIN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.E. Tucker Inc. · MSHA ID 4300408
    Abandoned
  40. R.E.Tucker, Inc.-Northfield Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.E. Tucker Inc. · MSHA ID 4300331
    Abandoned
  41. SOUTH BARRE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Cullough Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 4300155
    Abandoned
  42. THUNDER ROAD SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dubois Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4300492
    Abandoned
  43. Town Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Northfield · MSHA ID 4300312
    Abandoned
  44. TOWN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Warren · MSHA ID 4300421
    Abandoned
  45. Wells-Lamson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock Of Ages Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 4300063
    Abandoned
  46. WOODBURY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Cullough Crushing Inc · MSHA ID 4300215
    Abandoned
  47. Worcester Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vermont Sand & Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4300377
    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 32
Gravel Pit 25
Sand Pit 21
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 15
Quarry 8
Quarry - Rock 4
Open Pit Mine 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Quarry - Rock 1
Adit 1
Disturbed Surface 1
Sand Pit 1
Gravel Pit 1
Other counties in VermontAll 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.