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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in St. Croix County, Wisconsin

St. Croix County, Wisconsin has 105 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1946–1975. 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 St. Croix 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)
105
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
24
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits18 quadrangle maps, published 1946–1975 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
    6 5.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    99 94.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned24 on register
  1. Belisle Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4701868
    Abandoned
  2. Beyer Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4701872
    Abandoned
  3. CEMSTONE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Barton Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 4700755
    Abandoned
  4. Francois Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saint Croix County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4700392
    Abandoned
  5. Gillen Lime Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gillens Lime Quarry & Landscaping LLC · MSHA ID 4703602
    Abandoned
  6. Gust-Deer Park Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 4701982
    Abandoned
  7. Kolberg Screener 1-002
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rybak Aggregate, LLC · MSHA ID 2103629
    Abandoned
  8. Mayer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saint Croix County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702683
    Abandoned
  9. Nechville Excavating Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Nechville Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4703118
    Abandoned
  10. O Connell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saint Croix County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702126
    Abandoned
  11. Roberts Wash Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steneman Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 4702106
    Abandoned
  12. Rohl Limestone Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rohl Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 4703050
    Abandoned
  13. Screener 301
    Surface metal/non-metal · St Croix County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4703804
    Abandoned
  14. Spooner Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · St Croix County Highway Dept. · MSHA ID 4703782
    Abandoned
  15. St Croix County Highway Dept Spoone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saint Croix County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4700501
    Abandoned
  16. St Croix County Operations
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arthur Overgaard Inc · MSHA ID 4702644
    Abandoned
  17. St Croix County Pits & Quarrys
    Surface metal/non-metal · Saint Croix County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4700391
    Abandoned
  18. Steneman Concrete Products Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steneman Concrete Products Inc · MSHA ID 4702578
    Abandoned
  19. Tony's Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tony Rihn Crushing · MSHA ID 4703517
    Abandoned
  20. Utecht Sand & Gravel Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Utecht Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 4703201
    Abandoned
  21. WI Portable Crusher (5034 Cone)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cemstone Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4703068
    Abandoned
  22. WI Portable Wash (A1281 Wash Plant)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cemstone Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 4703069
    Abandoned
  23. Wilson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilson Rock & Limestone Company · MSHA ID 4702818
    Abandoned
  24. Wilson Rock & Limestone Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilson Rock & Limestone Company Inc · MSHA ID 4700271
    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 63
Gravel Pit 17
Quarry 12
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 6
Sand Pit 5
Quarry 1
Clay Pit 1
Other counties in WisconsinAll counties →
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.