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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Door County, Wisconsin

Door County, Wisconsin has 281 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1952–1982. MSHA's register carries 24 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Door 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)
281
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
24
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits26 quadrangle maps, published 1952–1982 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    281 100.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned24 on register
  1. 066 Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Door County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4703552
    Abandoned
  2. Adamski-Fisher Limestone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Adamski Fisher Quarry · MSHA ID 4700001
    Abandoned
  3. County P
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brauer Construction · MSHA ID 4703802
    Abandoned
  4. Door County Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sturgeon Bay Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4700979
    Abandoned
  5. Door Pit South
    Surface metal/non-metal · Door County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4701962
    Abandoned
  6. Door Quarry South
    Surface metal/non-metal · Door County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4701097
    Abandoned
  7. Harp Screen-Telescreen SN-421
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peters Concrete Company · MSHA ID 4703117
    Abandoned
  8. Hockers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hockers Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703948
    Abandoned
  9. Hubert Charles Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hubert Charles Pit · MSHA ID 4700858
    Abandoned
  10. JARMAN QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jarman Inc · MSHA ID 4700863
    Abandoned
  11. North Quarry/South Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jay T Olson Excavating · MSHA ID 4702825
    Abandoned
  12. OLDENBURG PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harbor Construction Of Door County, Inc. · MSHA ID 4702906
    Abandoned
  13. PARENT WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph H Parent Inc · MSHA ID 4702886
    Abandoned
  14. PETERSON PIT-WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sturgeon Bay Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4701960
    Abandoned
  15. Pit No 7 Brussels
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Gersek Inc · MSHA ID 4702247
    Abandoned
  16. PORTABLE CRUSHER #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · JOSEPH H. PARENT, INC. · MSHA ID 4702107
    Abandoned
  17. Portable Power Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sturgeon Bay Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4703336
    Abandoned
  18. Portable Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sturgeon Bay Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4703337
    Abandoned
  19. POWER SCREENER
    Surface metal/non-metal · DELSART EXCAVATING, LLC. · MSHA ID 4703494
    Abandoned
  20. Rubblemaster Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · J. Jadin Inc · MSHA ID 4703981
    Abandoned
  21. SISTER BAY PROPERTIES
    Surface metal/non-metal · DOOR COUNTY CUSTOM STONE, INC. · MSHA ID 4703492
    Abandoned
  22. Stone Road Properties
    Surface metal/non-metal · Door County Custom Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703482
    Abandoned
  23. Walker Road Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joseph H Parent Inc · MSHA ID 4702192
    Abandoned
  24. WASHINGTON ISLAND PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Town Of Washington · MSHA ID 4702701
    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 180
Quarry 53
Gravel Pit 22
Sand Pit 18
Quarry 6
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.