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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Grant County, Wisconsin

Grant County, Wisconsin has 218 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1952–1983, including 7 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 5 of the features carry a name on the map. MSHA's register carries 37 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Grant 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)
218
Mine openings
7
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
37
5 features carry a name0 prospect pits30 quadrangle maps, published 1952–1983 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
    7 3.2%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    21 9.6%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    176 80.7%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    14 6.4%
Named features on the maps5 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Acme Mine Mine Shaft
Homestead Mine Mine Dump area
Homestead Mine Mine Shaft
Little Grant Mine Adit
Rasque 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 Abandoned37 on register
  1. A-1 Asphalt and Paving
    Surface metal/non-metal · A-1 Asphalt and Paving · MSHA ID 4703688
    Abandoned
  2. Charles White Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dell Needham & Son · MSHA ID 4702048
    Abandoned
  3. Dave Roh Logging & Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dave Roh Logging & Excavating LLC · MSHA ID 4703838
    Abandoned
  4. Deitzman Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnsen Lime & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4702207
    Abandoned
  5. Finn Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yahara Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4702591
    Abandoned
  6. George Wendtlandt Inc Deiter Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · George Wendtlandt Inc · MSHA ID 4700240
    Abandoned
  7. Grant County Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · George Wendtlandt Inc · MSHA ID 4700245
    Abandoned
  8. Grant County Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Molzof Trucking & Agricultural Lime · MSHA ID 4702211
    Abandoned
  9. Grant County Quarry Operations
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4700210
    Abandoned
  10. Hodgson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · J & S Lime & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 4702703
    Abandoned
  11. Jeremy Iverson
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jeremy Iverson · MSHA ID 4703789
    Abandoned
  12. Julius Wiest Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lancaster Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4701741
    Abandoned
  13. Kieler No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kowalski-Kieler Inc · MSHA ID 4700283
    Abandoned
  14. Klar Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lonsberg/Ochs Division E A O Corp · MSHA ID 4702744
    Abandoned
  15. Kowalski-7 Wash Plant Cassville
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kowalski-Kieler Inc · MSHA ID 4703306
    Abandoned
  16. Kowalski-Kieler Quarry #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kowalski-Kieler Inc · MSHA ID 4702764
    Abandoned
  17. Krug Sand Operation
    Surface metal/non-metal · W C Stewart Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4703017
    Abandoned
  18. Millville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4700185
    Abandoned
  19. Nordberg-Reed Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · JI Construction · MSHA ID 4703785
    Abandoned
  20. Plant #54
    Surface metal/non-metal · Milestone Materials Div/Mathy Construction Co · MSHA ID 4703195
    Abandoned
  21. Plant #62
    Surface metal/non-metal · Milestone Materials Div/Mathy Construction Co · MSHA ID 4703232
    Abandoned
  22. Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Doniver, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703051
    Abandoned
  23. Plant No. 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Doniver, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703047
    Abandoned
  24. Platteville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4702617
    Abandoned
  25. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rural Excavating Division of Harrison House LTD · MSHA ID 4703632
    Abandoned
  26. Portable Crushing 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kowalski-Kieler Incorporated · MSHA ID 4703693
    Abandoned
  27. Portable Unit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dell Needham & Son · MSHA ID 4700559
    Abandoned
  28. Portable Unit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lancaster Stone Inc · MSHA ID 4700007
    Abandoned
  29. PORTABLE UNIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Croft Inc · MSHA ID 4700027
    Abandoned
  30. PORTABLE UNIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Croft Inc · MSHA ID 4702810
    Abandoned
  31. PORTABLE UNIT #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Croft Inc · MSHA ID 4702861
    Abandoned
  32. Portable Unit #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Croft Inc · MSHA ID 4703030
    Abandoned
  33. Reynolds Pit Portable Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kowalski-Kieler Inc · MSHA ID 4702900
    Abandoned
  34. Reynolds Quarry - Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reynolds Brothers, LLC · MSHA ID 4703264
    Abandoned
  35. Reynolds-Muscoda Pit-Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reynolds Brothers, LLC · MSHA ID 4703265
    Abandoned
  36. Screen Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwest Sand and Stone LLC · MSHA ID 4703741
    Abandoned
  37. Staskal Lime Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Staskal Lime · MSHA ID 4700187
    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 153
Quarry 16
Open Pit Mine 13
Mine Dump 12
Sand Pit 4
Adit 4
Mine Shaft 3
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
Tailings - Undifferentiated 2
Gravel Pit 2
Open Pit Mine 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Gravel 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.