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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin has 283 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1992. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Fond du Lac 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)
283
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits25 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1992 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
    21 7.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    262 92.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. COUNTY SS GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · RADEMANN STONE & LANDSCAPE COMPANY, INC. · MSHA ID 4702389
    Abandoned
  2. Ebert Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roger Strean Aggregates · MSHA ID 4702666
    Abandoned
  3. Gyr Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & H Gyr Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4702527
    Abandoned
  4. Knowles
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buechel Stone Corp · MSHA ID 4703184
    Abandoned
  5. Lehner Qry Or Kollann Ory
    Surface metal/non-metal · C C Linck Inc · MSHA ID 4701338
    Abandoned
  6. Linck-Waupun Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · C C Linck Inc · MSHA ID 4702310
    Abandoned
  7. M.D. Crushing & Excavating, LLC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · M.D. Crushing & Excavating, LLC. · MSHA ID 4703925
    Abandoned
  8. MARCHANT MATERIALS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marchant Excavating · MSHA ID 4703081
    Abandoned
  9. Mobile Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eden Stone Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703910
    Abandoned
  10. More Pit Or Hoppe Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C C Linck Inc · MSHA ID 4702539
    Abandoned
  11. Oak Stone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oak Stone Company · MSHA ID 4700127
    Abandoned
  12. Oakfield Brick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakfield Shale Brick & Tile Company · MSHA ID 4700445
    Abandoned
  13. Oakfield Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eden Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 4702196
    Abandoned
  14. Phil Majerus Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ram Construction Company · MSHA ID 4702633
    Abandoned
  15. Rahns-Gellings Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fond Du Lac County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4701443
    Abandoned
  16. Red Rock Acres
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malterer's Red Rock Acres · MSHA ID 4703338
    Abandoned
  17. Reischke Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fond Du Lac County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4701555
    Abandoned
  18. Rental Unit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Aggregate, LLC. · MSHA ID 4703907
    Abandoned
  19. Ripon Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Green Lake Ready Mix Company · MSHA ID 4700124
    Abandoned
  20. Ripon Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ripon Lime Products Inc · MSHA ID 4702682
    Abandoned
  21. RLAM, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & R Wash Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4703127
    Abandoned
  22. Rock Ledge Property
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eden Stone Co., LLC · MSHA ID 4702927
    Abandoned
  23. Rodeinger Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · 41 Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 4702659
    Abandoned
  24. Schoppenhorst Construction, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Schoppenhorst Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703806
    Abandoned
  25. Silica Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cascade Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4702782
    Abandoned
  26. Simon Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Simon Stone & Excavating · MSHA ID 4702597
    Abandoned
  27. Steger Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T.A.P. Trucking & Excavating, LLC · MSHA ID 4703645
    Abandoned
  28. WASH PLANT NO. 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & R Wash Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4703128
    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 182
Gravel Pit 36
Quarry 22
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 16
Quarry 16
Sand Pit 4
Disturbed Surface 3
Clay Pit 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Clay Pit 1
Disturbed Surface - Pit 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.