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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Barron County, Wisconsin

Barron County, Wisconsin has 157 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1949–1982. 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 Barron 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)
157
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
47
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits26 quadrangle maps, published 1949–1982 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
    1 0.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    156 99.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned47 on register
  1. 683 SCREEN PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Allan Olynick Inc · MSHA ID 4703282
    Abandoned
  2. Anderson Property
    Surface metal/non-metal · Piranha Proppant · MSHA ID 4703665
    Abandoned
  3. Arland Dry Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Superior Silica Sands, LLC · MSHA ID 4703720
    Abandoned
  4. Arland Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barron County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702686
    Abandoned
  5. Barber-Green
    Surface metal/non-metal · Antczak Construction Inc. · MSHA ID 4703373
    Abandoned
  6. Barron County Operations
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raymond Madson Excavating · MSHA ID 4702718
    Abandoned
  7. Barron County Saffer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arthur Overgaard Division · MSHA ID 4702770
    Abandoned
  8. Bulldozin, Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bull Dozin, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703952
    Abandoned
  9. Cedar Rapids
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glacier Rock Supply, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703469
    Abandoned
  10. Crotteau Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yellow River Supply Corp · MSHA ID 4702564
    Abandoned
  11. Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & D Services · MSHA ID 4703044
    Abandoned
  12. Crusher No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holmstrom Construction · MSHA ID 4703032
    Abandoned
  13. CRUSHER NO. 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Erickson Excavating · MSHA ID 4703033
    Abandoned
  14. D & D
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kraemer Mining and Material · MSHA ID 4703672
    Abandoned
  15. Dovre Dry Plant Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Industrial Sand LLC · MSHA ID 4703761
    Abandoned
  16. Dovre Mine Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoffman Construction Company · MSHA ID 4703649
    Abandoned
  17. Dovre Processing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · CRS Proppants LLC · MSHA ID 4703646
    Abandoned
  18. Dovre Wet Processing Site #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · CRS Proppants LLC · MSHA ID 4703740
    Abandoned
  19. Drew Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barron County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702662
    Abandoned
  20. Dry Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Superior Silica Sands LLC · MSHA ID 4703620
    Abandoned
  21. Ellis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & E Inc · MSHA ID 4702864
    Abandoned
  22. Finlay Screen
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nordby Enterprises · MSHA ID 4703613
    Abandoned
  23. Fry Hill Site
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northern Industrial Sand LLC · MSHA ID 4703755
    Abandoned
  24. Greg's Excavating Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gregs Excavating Inc. · MSHA ID 4703600
    Abandoned
  25. Indian Head Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stelter Inc · MSHA ID 4702766
    Abandoned
  26. Jerome Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raymond Madson Excavating · MSHA ID 4702611
    Abandoned
  27. Kahl Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barron County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702421
    Abandoned
  28. Lippman Jaw Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Antczak Aggregate Producers LLC · MSHA ID 4703756
    Abandoned
  29. Lippman Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Trenco Tri-Axle Services · MSHA ID 4703567
    Abandoned
  30. LP Mine Site and Wet Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Silica Sands, LLC · MSHA ID 4703707
    Abandoned
  31. McCloskey Mobile Screener #1602-306
    Surface metal/non-metal · Antczak Aggregate Producers LLC · MSHA ID 4703878
    Abandoned
  32. Miss Margie
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brannt Valley Excavating · MSHA ID 2103586
    Abandoned
  33. P S 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glacier Rock Supply, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703374
    Abandoned
  34. Pioneer Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pioneer Sand & Gravel Co Inc · MSHA ID 4701212
    Abandoned
  35. Piranha Proppant-Load Out Facility
    Facility metal/non-metal · Piranha Proppant, LLC · MSHA ID 4703675
    Abandoned
  36. PLANT #20
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Materials Corp · MSHA ID 4702589
    Abandoned
  37. PORTABLE 4250 CRUSHER-SCREEN #6
    Surface metal/non-metal · C.J. MOYNA & SONS, LLC. · MSHA ID 1302450
    Abandoned
  38. Robarge Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yellow River Supply Corp · MSHA ID 4702552
    Abandoned
  39. SAFFERT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Todd'S Redi-Mix Concrete Llc · MSHA ID 4702989
    Abandoned
  40. Sioux Creek Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sioux Creek Silica, LLC · MSHA ID 4703732
    Abandoned
  41. Smith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Raymond Madson Excavating · MSHA ID 4702661
    Abandoned
  42. Spread #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northwest Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 4703035
    Abandoned
  43. Superior Silica Sands Church Road Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Silica Sands · MSHA ID 4703662
    Abandoned
  44. Superior Silica Sands LLC FLS Mine/Wet Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Silica Sands LLC · MSHA ID 4703670
    Abandoned
  45. Superior Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Superior Wash Plant · MSHA ID 4703412
    Abandoned
  46. Todd's Redi-Mix Rosestone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Todd's Redi-Mix Concrete LLC · MSHA ID 4703404
    Abandoned
  47. Wiesner'S Rose Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Loren Wiesner Inc · MSHA ID 4702879
    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 121
Gravel Pit 18
Sand Pit 11
Quarry 5
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Open Pit Mine or 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.