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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Outagamie County, Wisconsin has 276 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1992. 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 Outagamie 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)
276
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
24
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits20 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1992 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
    54 19.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    221 80.1%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 0.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned24 on register
  1. B350-Eb
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mcc Inc · MSHA ID 4702794
    Abandoned
  2. Hewitt-Robbins Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703525
    Abandoned
  3. Kimberly Carbonates, LLC.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kimberly Carbonates LLC · MSHA ID 4702971
    Abandoned
  4. M & J Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · M & J Sand · MSHA ID 4703614
    Abandoned
  5. M R K Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · M R K Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4700109
    Abandoned
  6. Medina Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl W Krause Excavating Company · MSHA ID 4700790
    Abandoned
  7. Midwest Perlite Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Midwest Perlite Inc. · MSHA ID 4703442
    Abandoned
  8. Monnot Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Monnot-Operator · MSHA ID 4702504
    Abandoned
  9. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nelson Trucking · MSHA ID 4702598
    Abandoned
  10. Pit H
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ed Gersek Inc · MSHA ID 4701553
    Abandoned
  11. PLANT 10
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703064
    Abandoned
  12. PLANT 11
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, INC. · MSHA ID 4703093
    Abandoned
  13. Plant 13, NL Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703137
    Abandoned
  14. PLANT 14
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, INC. · MSHA ID 4703211
    Abandoned
  15. Plant 16
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703428
    Abandoned
  16. Plant 7
    Surface metal/non-metal · MCC, Inc. · MSHA ID 4702795
    Abandoned
  17. Portable Crusher #107
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fox Valley Construction Company · MSHA ID 4702785
    Abandoned
  18. PORTABLE CRUSHER #157
    Surface metal/non-metal · Badger Highways Company Inc · MSHA ID 4700005
    Abandoned
  19. Rock Road Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carl W Krause Excavating Company · MSHA ID 4700092
    Abandoned
  20. Rock Road-Bluebell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Badger Highways Co Inc · MSHA ID 4702599
    Abandoned
  21. Seymour Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · M R K Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4701552
    Abandoned
  22. Shuh Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4702740
    Abandoned
  23. Turner Services
    Surface metal/non-metal · Turner Services · MSHA ID 4703011
    Abandoned
  24. Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Griesbach Trucking, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703394
    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 60
Sand Pit 60
Gravel Pit 47
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 47
Sand Pit 20
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 16
Quarry 11
Disturbed Surface - Pit 6
Quarry 5
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Disturbed Surface 1
Mine Dump 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.