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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Waupaca County, Wisconsin

Waupaca County, Wisconsin has 268 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1993. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Waupaca 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)
268
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits25 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1993 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
    55 20.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    213 79.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. 2000 Chief Screener
    Surface metal/non-metal · Go Green Recycling, LLC. · MSHA ID 4703840
    Abandoned
  2. 2012 KPI
    Surface metal/non-metal · Go Green Recycling, LLC. · MSHA ID 4703839
    Abandoned
  3. Casey Excavating
    Surface metal/non-metal · Casey Excavating · MSHA ID 4703694
    Abandoned
  4. Crusher No 642
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waupaca County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702559
    Abandoned
  5. Crusher No 643
    Surface metal/non-metal · Waupaca County Highway Department · MSHA ID 4702560
    Abandoned
  6. Dupont Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Marion Aggregate LLC · MSHA ID 4703538
    Abandoned
  7. FML Sand - Readfield
    Surface metal/non-metal · FML Sand, LLC · MSHA ID 4703534
    Abandoned
  8. Griesbach's Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Griesbach Construction Company · MSHA ID 4703498
    Abandoned
  9. KNITT PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knitt Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4702882
    Abandoned
  10. Mantin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mantin Bros · MSHA ID 4701372
    Abandoned
  11. Portable Crusher #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · James P Hofferber Construction · MSHA ID 4702788
    Abandoned
  12. PORTABLE PIONEER 356
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knitt Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4703141
    Abandoned
  13. PORTABLE SCREEN PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · CAREW CONCRETE & SUPPLY CO., INC. · MSHA ID 4703309
    Abandoned
  14. Readfield
    Surface metal/non-metal · Whitehaven Silica, LLC. · MSHA ID 4703816
    Abandoned
  15. Readfield Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · A.F. Gelhar Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 4701963
    Abandoned
  16. Screen 761
    Surface metal/non-metal · Faulks Bros Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4703546
    Abandoned
  17. Screen C0778
    Surface metal/non-metal · Faulks Brothers Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4702558
    Abandoned
  18. Screen Plant #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sambs Stone Products Inc · MSHA ID 4703417
    Abandoned
  19. SCREENING PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Knitt Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4703252
    Abandoned
  20. VSI
    Surface metal/non-metal · Faulks Bros Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4703515
    Abandoned
  21. WEINMANN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Togashi Trucking Inc · MSHA ID 4703249
    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 125
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 47
Sand Pit 40
Gravel Pit 27
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Disturbed Surface - Pit 8
Sand Pit 5
Quarry 4
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.