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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

Manitowoc County, Wisconsin has 238 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1954–1994. MSHA's register carries 39 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Manitowoc 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)
238
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
39
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits23 quadrangle maps, published 1954–1994 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
    17 7.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    221 92.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned39 on register
  1. 2003 EXTEC C12 CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · KIEL SAND & GRAVEL, INC. · MSHA ID 4703369
    Abandoned
  2. Brillion Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Badger Highways Company Inc · MSHA ID 4702631
    Abandoned
  3. Brost Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B R Amon & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4702593
    Abandoned
  4. CEDAR RAPIDS NO. 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · L C Cherney Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4702530
    Abandoned
  5. COMMANDER 510
    Surface metal/non-metal · MANITOWOC COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT · MSHA ID 4702311
    Abandoned
  6. Cooperstown 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Zeman Construction & Concrete Company Inc · MSHA ID 4701219
    Abandoned
  7. Eagle Double Screw
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boulanger Construction Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703164
    Abandoned
  8. Eden-Valders Crushing Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valders Stone & Marble, LLC · MSHA ID 4703889
    Abandoned
  9. Ehnert Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · August Ehnert & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4700772
    Abandoned
  10. Finnley Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holschbach Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703327
    Abandoned
  11. Fred Fels Ready-Mix Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fred Fels Ready-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4701429
    Abandoned
  12. GRIMM PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · VICTOR GRIMM TRUCKING · MSHA ID 4702759
    Abandoned
  13. Kiel Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4700871
    Abandoned
  14. Kolberg 241 Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Highway Landscapers, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703696
    Abandoned
  15. Kopinos Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Daanen & Janssen Inc · MSHA ID 4702045
    Abandoned
  16. Lambert Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lambert Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4703495
    Abandoned
  17. Lemberger Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4702227
    Abandoned
  18. Lutski Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Yahara Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4702678
    Abandoned
  19. Manitowoc Pits S & G
    Surface metal/non-metal · 4 X Corp · MSHA ID 4702294
    Abandoned
  20. Manitowoc Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Medusa Cement Company · MSHA ID 4701091
    Abandoned
  21. NN & Z Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L C Cherney Const Inc · MSHA ID 4703471
    Abandoned
  22. PORTABLE CRUSHER #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Manitowoc County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702025
    Abandoned
  23. PORTABLE CRUSHER #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4702805
    Abandoned
  24. PORTABLE CRUSHER #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Evenson Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4703113
    Abandoned
  25. Portable Plant #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sheboygan Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4702784
    Abandoned
  26. PORTABLE PLANT NO. 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holschbach Exc, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703228
    Abandoned
  27. PORTABLE SCREENER #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4703163
    Abandoned
  28. Power Screen #3653 Powergrid
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 4703363
    Abandoned
  29. Prtbl Power Screen Chieftan#4076
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4703320
    Abandoned
  30. R & J Fricke, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & J Fricke, Inc. · MSHA ID 4700918
    Abandoned
  31. Robotrac SA4787
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4703258
    Abandoned
  32. Telsmith #3111
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4703396
    Abandoned
  33. Valders Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Specification Stone Products Inc · MSHA ID 4702800
    Abandoned
  34. VALDERS QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Specification Stone Products Inc · MSHA ID 4703119
    Abandoned
  35. WAGNER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Evenson Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4703280
    Abandoned
  36. WASH PLANT
    Facility metal/non-metal · Steve Schenian Trucking · MSHA ID 4702956
    Abandoned
  37. WASH PLANT
    Facility metal/non-metal · Roger M Schaaf · MSHA ID 4702973
    Abandoned
  38. WASHPLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · C Shay Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4703181
    Abandoned
  39. Zimmerman Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kiel Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4701864
    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 102
Gravel Pit 89
Disturbed Surface - Pit 14
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Quarry 8
Quarry 3
Disturbed Surface 3
Sand Pit 2
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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.