Mining Incidents
Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Snohomish County, Washington

Snohomish County, Washington has 272 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1944–1999, including 38 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 17 prospect pits; 14 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 114 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Snohomish 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)
272
Mine openings
38
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
114
14 features carry a name17 prospect pits42 quadrangle maps, published 1944–1999 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
    38 14.0%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    17 6.2%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    5 1.8%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    212 77.9%
Named features on the maps14 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Bonanza Queen Mine Adit
Bonanza Queen Mine Adit
Copperbell Mine Adit
Glacier Peak Mine Adit
Glacier Peak Mines Adit
Glacier Peak Mines Prospect Pit
Honeymoon Mine Adit
Kromona Mine Adit
Lockwood Mine Adit
Sperry-Iverson Mine Adit
St Louis Mine Adit
St Louis Mine Adit
Sunset Mine Adit
Wayside Mine Mine Shaft

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 Abandoned114 on register
  1. 15 Mile Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Summit Timber Company · MSHA ID 4502898
    Abandoned
  2. AAA DIORITE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · AAA Monroe Rock Corp · MSHA ID 4502417
    Abandoned
  3. Anacortes Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Industries, Inc · MSHA ID 4501066
    Abandoned
  4. Arlanco Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · W L Perry · MSHA ID 4502647
    Abandoned
  5. Arlington Heights Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Road District · MSHA ID 4501151
    Abandoned
  6. Arlington Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Concrete Nor'West · MSHA ID 4500988
    Abandoned
  7. Arlington Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman Materials · MSHA ID 4503425
    Abandoned
  8. B A Gedstad Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B A Gedstad · MSHA ID 4502469
    Abandoned
  9. B N Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4503193
    Abandoned
  10. BIG BEAR QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rominco Llc · MSHA ID 4500056
    Abandoned
  11. Black Chuck Pit Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Olson & Taylor Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4501968
    Abandoned
  12. Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 4503771
    Abandoned
  13. Builders Supply Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Builders Supply · MSHA ID 4502300
    Abandoned
  14. Cadman Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman Inc · MSHA ID 4500712
    Abandoned
  15. Cagi Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Columbia Ready-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4500674
    Abandoned
  16. CANADIAN CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Okanogan Aggregates Ltd · MSHA ID 4503355
    Abandoned
  17. City Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Of Snohomish · MSHA ID 4502794
    Abandoned
  18. Clay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clayburn Inc · MSHA ID 4500255
    Abandoned
  19. Coal Lake Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502091
    Abandoned
  20. Coe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Public Works · MSHA ID 4500946
    Abandoned
  21. Conelly Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Industries · MSHA ID 4501744
    Abandoned
  22. Crowsfoot No 1 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502431
    Abandoned
  23. Crowsfoot No 2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502432
    Abandoned
  24. CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reece Bros Logging Inc · MSHA ID 4503477
    Abandoned
  25. CTI PORTABLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · City Transfer Inc · MSHA ID 4503248
    Abandoned
  26. D-193 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fiorito Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4502796
    Abandoned
  27. Darrington Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Road District · MSHA ID 4502001
    Abandoned
  28. Dredger Processing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wetlands Creation, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503602
    Abandoned
  29. Edinger Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edinger Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4500621
    Abandoned
  30. Evans Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller Shingle Company · MSHA ID 4502306
    Abandoned
  31. Evans Creek Pit #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502307
    Abandoned
  32. Everett Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · M A Segale Inc · MSHA ID 4502738
    Abandoned
  33. Everett Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4500577
    Abandoned
  34. Everett Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · M A Segale Inc · MSHA ID 4502651
    Abandoned
  35. EXTEC #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Road & Bridge · MSHA ID 4503457
    Abandoned
  36. Far Point
    Surface metal/non-metal · Far Point Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 4503549
    Abandoned
  37. Five Mile Andesite Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Five Mile Quarry Co · MSHA ID 4503515
    Abandoned
  38. Getchell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Public Works · MSHA ID 4501499
    Abandoned
  39. Getchell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cascade Roads Inc · MSHA ID 4502879
    Abandoned
  40. Gooch
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman (Redmond) Inc · MSHA ID 4501188
    Abandoned
  41. GRANDRIDGE
    Surface metal/non-metal · D-4 Care Inc · MSHA ID 4503385
    Abandoned
  42. Granite Falls Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Iron Mountain Quarry · MSHA ID 4502665
    Abandoned
  43. GREEN CROW ROCK PRODUCTS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roads West Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4503428
    Abandoned
  44. H R-700 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Weyerhaeuser Company · MSHA ID 4503036
    Abandoned
  45. Hammeren Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hammeren Gravel Distributors Inc · MSHA ID 4503240
    Abandoned
  46. Hewitt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dis & Dat Construction Company · MSHA ID 4502600
    Abandoned
  47. Jonkers Placer
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gregory E Rogers · MSHA ID 4502849
    Abandoned
  48. Joplin Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lakeside Industries · MSHA ID 4502009
    Abandoned
  49. Jordan Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Concrete Nor'West · MSHA ID 4503668
    Abandoned
  50. Jorden Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Builders Rock Inc · MSHA ID 4502726
    Abandoned
  51. KUTZER ROCK CRUSHING
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kutzer Rock Crushing · MSHA ID 4503056
    Abandoned
  52. Lenz Enterprises Mobile Crushing
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lenz Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 4503714
    Abandoned
  53. Lynnwood Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lynnwood Sand & Gravel Incorporat · MSHA ID 4500620
    Abandoned
  54. M & S Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C Martin Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4501340
    Abandoned
  55. MALTBY RESOURCES
    Surface metal/non-metal · Csr Associated Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 4503221
    Abandoned
  56. Mandan Sand & Gravel-Riverscene
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mandan Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4503105
    Abandoned
  57. May Creek Mine & Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Coast Miners · MSHA ID 4503025
    Abandoned
  58. Merrill Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Merrill Creek Associates · MSHA ID 4500666
    Abandoned
  59. MONROE ROCK
    Surface metal/non-metal · AAA Monroe Rock Corp · MSHA ID 4500557
    Abandoned
  60. NW Sand & Gravel Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nw Sand & Gravel Products Inc · MSHA ID 4503421
    Abandoned
  61. O'Brien Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'Brien Sand and Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503662
    Abandoned
  62. Olson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Olson & Taylor Inc · MSHA ID 4501341
    Abandoned
  63. Oso Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Road District · MSHA ID 4501124
    Abandoned
  64. PILCHUCK AGGREGATES
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pilchuck Aggregates · MSHA ID 4503123
    Abandoned
  65. Pilchuck Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish Rock Products · MSHA ID 4502698
    Abandoned
  66. Pilchuck Quarry No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Denkmann Company · MSHA ID 4501347
    Abandoned
  67. Pilchuck Quarry No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Denkmann Company · MSHA ID 4501972
    Abandoned
  68. Pilchuck Roadside Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502429
    Abandoned
  69. Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cascade H & A, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 4503736
    Abandoned
  70. Plant 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Seegert Crushing · MSHA ID 4503803
    Abandoned
  71. Port Of Benton Pit
    Underground metal/non-metal · Midland Rock Products · MSHA ID 4502853
    Abandoned
  72. Port P-91 4242 Re-Circulating Impactor
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Topsoils, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503630
    Abandoned
  73. Portable #P-77 Premiertrack Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Topsoils, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503632
    Abandoned
  74. Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 4503692
    Abandoned
  75. Portable #P-86
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Topsoils, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503631
    Abandoned
  76. Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC · MSHA ID 4503381
    Abandoned
  77. PORTABLE CRUSHER NO. 1
    Facility metal/non-metal · Olson & Taylor Inc · MSHA ID 4503106
    Abandoned
  78. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Meridian Aggregates Company · MSHA ID 4503058
    Abandoned
  79. PORTABLE WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Olson & Taylor Inc · MSHA ID 4503360
    Abandoned
  80. Proctor Creek Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rinker Materials · MSHA ID 4502882
    Abandoned
  81. Pugh Ridge Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502396
    Abandoned
  82. R-4 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C Martin Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4502780
    Abandoned
  83. Reiter Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reiter Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503232
    Abandoned
  84. Reiter Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scarsella Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 4503442
    Abandoned
  85. Riverside Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverside Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4500684
    Abandoned
  86. Ross Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Scarsella Bros., Inc. · MSHA ID 4503522
    Abandoned
  87. Rosselli Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monroe Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4502173
    Abandoned
  88. Rotary Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · U S Forest Service · MSHA ID 4502430
    Abandoned
  89. Safeway Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harold Hanson · MSHA ID 4502881
    Abandoned
  90. Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Village Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4501386
    Abandoned
  91. Sand Hill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Public Works · MSHA ID 4501143
    Abandoned
  92. Sandhill Or Sandhill Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Public Works · MSHA ID 4502676
    Abandoned
  93. Scotty Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'Brien Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4503612
    Abandoned
  94. Sea Mount Resources
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steve Gibson Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4503563
    Abandoned
  95. SILVANA PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stanwood Redi-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4500698
    Abandoned
  96. Simpson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · SSG Mineral Resources & Recycling, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503524
    Abandoned
  97. Skaglund Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Art Skaglund · MSHA ID 4502759
    Abandoned
  98. Skaglund Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · A & E LLC · MSHA ID 4503603
    Abandoned
  99. Sky River Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cadman (Rock) Inc · MSHA ID 4503014
    Abandoned
  100. Smoke Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cecil C Art & Beryl Smoke · MSHA ID 4502146
    Abandoned
  101. Snohomish County Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Road District · MSHA ID 4500694
    Abandoned
  102. SNOHOMISH SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish Excavators · MSHA ID 4503324
    Abandoned
  103. Stilly Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stillaguamish Resources LLC · MSHA ID 4503699
    Abandoned
  104. Suiattle Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Summit Timber Company · MSHA ID 4502769
    Abandoned
  105. Summit Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Summit Timber Company · MSHA ID 4502768
    Abandoned
  106. Sunday Lake Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Road District · MSHA ID 4502355
    Abandoned
  107. Sunrise Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Century Exploration Inc · MSHA ID 4500888
    Abandoned
  108. Sunset Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Index Mining Company · MSHA ID 4501142
    Abandoned
  109. Trafton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Snohomish County Road District · MSHA ID 4501150
    Abandoned
  110. Turk Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pacific Topsoils, Inc. · MSHA ID 4503715
    Abandoned
  111. Twin Rivers Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Twin Rivers Quarry · MSHA ID 4500553
    Abandoned
  112. WILLARD AGGREGATES
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willard Aggregates · MSHA ID 4503383
    Abandoned
  113. Williams Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harold Jordan Company Inc · MSHA ID 4500715
    Abandoned
  114. Windy Pass Bornite Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Unknown · MSHA ID 4502503
    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 72
Gravel Pit 47
Adit 37
Quarry 32
Quarry 21
Prospect Pit 17
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 15
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 12
Borrow Pit 8
Disturbed Surface 4
Sand Pit 3
Sand Pit 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Mine Shaft 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.