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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Racine County, Wisconsin

Racine County, Wisconsin has 122 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1958–1994. MSHA's register carries 34 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Racine 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)
122
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
34
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits20 quadrangle maps, published 1958–1994 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
    19 15.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    102 83.6%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 0.8%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned34 on register
  1. #G70 GRASAN 1515E IMPACTOR PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Cape & Sons Company · MSHA ID 4703076
    Abandoned
  2. 32 X 48 Alice Jaw 380101
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Cape & Sons Company · MSHA ID 4703131
    Abandoned
  3. A W Oakes & Son Plant 999
    Surface metal/non-metal · A W Oakes & Son Inc · MSHA ID 4703485
    Abandoned
  4. A W Oakes Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · A W Oakes & Son Inc · MSHA ID 4703526
    Abandoned
  5. Alby Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mann Brothers Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4702178
    Abandoned
  6. Burlington Pit (Yard 12)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tews Company · MSHA ID 4701546
    Abandoned
  7. Cornerstone Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · CORNERSTONE WASH PLANT · MSHA ID 4703825
    Abandoned
  8. DL-1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Payne & Dolan, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703653
    Abandoned
  9. Don'S Pit And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dons Trucking · MSHA ID 4701547
    Abandoned
  10. DON'S TRUCKING
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dons Trucking · MSHA ID 4702877
    Abandoned
  11. Frost Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Racine County Public Works · MSHA ID 4701179
    Abandoned
  12. GRASON KR-1313
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Cape & Sons Company · MSHA ID 4703077
    Abandoned
  13. HEWITT ROBBINS 24"X48" JAW
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Cape & Sons Company · MSHA ID 4703094
    Abandoned
  14. HIMEBAUCH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lafarge-Wisconsin Division · MSHA ID 4703189
    Abandoned
  15. Holcim Dyer Lake Pit #34
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holcim - MAMR, Inc. · MSHA ID 4702505
    Abandoned
  16. HRC Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hard Rock Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 4703778
    Abandoned
  17. Jacobson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · White Construction Company · MSHA ID 4702524
    Abandoned
  18. Kordus Wash Scew
    Surface metal/non-metal · Asphalt Contractors, Inc. · MSHA ID 4703939
    Abandoned
  19. KPIJCIE062
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jaramillo Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 4703909
    Abandoned
  20. Krueger Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reesmans Excavating & Grading Inc. · MSHA ID 4703522
    Abandoned
  21. Lippman Crusher 380219
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Cape & Sons Company · MSHA ID 4703180
    Abandoned
  22. LIPPMAN JAW PLANT #L-20
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Cape & Sons Co · MSHA ID 4703111
    Abandoned
  23. Main Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cretex Materials Inc · MSHA ID 4701203
    Abandoned
  24. Parkview Sand & Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Park View Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 4701380
    Abandoned
  25. PC-3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cretex Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4703100
    Abandoned
  26. Pine Lake Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · TV Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 4703339
    Abandoned
  27. Portable Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Park View Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4702890
    Abandoned
  28. Quarry No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · J W Peters & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4700496
    Abandoned
  29. Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mann Bros., Inc. · MSHA ID 4702811
    Abandoned
  30. Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Park View Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 4703001
    Abandoned
  31. Wash Plant Portable 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hard Rock Crushing LLC · MSHA ID 4703689
    Abandoned
  32. WASH PLANT/ALBY UNIT 0095
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Cape & Sons Company · MSHA ID 4703083
    Abandoned
  33. WATERFORD PIT (YARD 17)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lafarge-Wisconsin Division · MSHA ID 4702896
    Abandoned
  34. Wuttke Pit And Portable Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lang Engineering Company Inc · MSHA ID 4701168
    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 53
Gravel Pit 40
Disturbed Surface - Pit 17
Quarry 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Disturbed Surface 2
Clay Pit 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Settling Pond 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.