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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Marathon County, Wisconsin

Marathon County, Wisconsin has 540 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1951–1993. MSHA's register carries 46 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Marathon 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)
540
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
46
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits43 quadrangle maps, published 1951–1993 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
    22 4.1%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    518 95.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned46 on register
  1. #1 SCREENER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roehl Granite Inc · MSHA ID 4702921
    Abandoned
  2. Athens Hard Rock, LLC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Athens Hard Rock, LLC. · MSHA ID 4703372
    Abandoned
  3. Athens Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B R Amon & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4702668
    Abandoned
  4. Athens Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alton Zettler Inc · MSHA ID 4700767
    Abandoned
  5. Belanger Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Belanger Granite Company · MSHA ID 4702538
    Abandoned
  6. Bielke Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harold Bielke · MSHA ID 4700008
    Abandoned
  7. CAMBRIAN SANDSTONE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Wisconsin Stone Center · MSHA ID 4703239
    Abandoned
  8. Central Wisconsin Stone Center LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Wisconsin Stone Center LLC · MSHA ID 4703573
    Abandoned
  9. CHARNESKI PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gary Charneski Excavating · MSHA ID 4702726
    Abandoned
  10. County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marathon County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702099
    Abandoned
  11. CRUSHER #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roehl Granite Inc · MSHA ID 4702922
    Abandoned
  12. CRUSHER #4 ROEHL GRANITE, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roehl Granite Inc · MSHA ID 4702935
    Abandoned
  13. CRUSHER #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roehl Granite Inc · MSHA ID 4703098
    Abandoned
  14. Granite Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fischer Transportation Inc · MSHA ID 4702924
    Abandoned
  15. Hilgemann Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willfahrt Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4701173
    Abandoned
  16. KAFKA CONVEYORS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · KAFKA CONVEYORS AND EQUIPMENT INC. · MSHA ID 4703805
    Abandoned
  17. Knowlton Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ellis Corp · MSHA ID 4700047
    Abandoned
  18. Ladick Qy Granite
    Surface metal/non-metal · L & G Granite Company Inc · MSHA ID 4700313
    Abandoned
  19. LIPPMAN PORTABLE WASH PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanz Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4702618
    Abandoned
  20. LIPPMANN PORTABLE CRUSHING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanz Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4702885
    Abandoned
  21. Lotz Pit & Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lotz Ready Mix · MSHA ID 4700885
    Abandoned
  22. Mcguire Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wood County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702009
    Abandoned
  23. Mosinee
    Surface metal/non-metal · Buechel Stone Corp · MSHA ID 4703537
    Abandoned
  24. Nemke Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nemke Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703386
    Abandoned
  25. Pioneer Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanz Contractors, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703366
    Abandoned
  26. Portable Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.C. Pavers, LLC · MSHA ID 4703897
    Abandoned
  27. PORTABLE SCREENER 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · TITO, INC. · MSHA ID 4703783
    Abandoned
  28. Redetzke Screening
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redetzke Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4703576
    Abandoned
  29. RIB FALLS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marathon County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4703255
    Abandoned
  30. Rib Mountain Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company · MSHA ID 4700118
    Abandoned
  31. Rib Mountain Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michels Road & Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4700136
    Abandoned
  32. ROEHL GRANITE CRUSHER #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roehl Granite Inc · MSHA ID 4700064
    Abandoned
  33. ROEHL SHOP
    Facility metal/non-metal · Roehl Granite Inc · MSHA ID 4703186
    Abandoned
  34. Ruby Red Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michels Road & Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4700003
    Abandoned
  35. Ruby Red Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · 6-L Company · MSHA ID 4702779
    Abandoned
  36. Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Switlick & Sons Inc. · MSHA ID 4703563
    Abandoned
  37. Stevens Point Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eden Stone Co., LLC · MSHA ID 4703254
    Abandoned
  38. Stevens Point Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oakfield Stone Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 4703371
    Abandoned
  39. Sunburst Quarry Company Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monumental Sales & Manufacturing Company Inc · MSHA ID 4702255
    Abandoned
  40. SVEDALE CONE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanz Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4702722
    Abandoned
  41. Thurber Granite Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thurber Granite · MSHA ID 4702725
    Abandoned
  42. Town Of Wausau Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ashco Inc · MSHA ID 4702934
    Abandoned
  43. Wausau Quarry (Bright Red)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cold Spring Granite Company · MSHA ID 4700024
    Abandoned
  44. WIMMER GRANITE & SUPPLY, INC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wimmer Granite & Supply Inc · MSHA ID 4701498
    Abandoned
  45. Wisconsin Rose Red
    Surface metal/non-metal · Michels Road & Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 4700094
    Abandoned
  46. Younker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · 4 X Corp · MSHA ID 4700855
    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 275
Quarry 163
Gravel Pit 27
Quarry 20
Sand Pit 18
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 18
Sand Pit 6
Sand and Gravel Pit 5
Disturbed Surface 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Clay 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.