Downingtown Quarry & Plant

Past Producer in Chester county in Pennsylvania, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10128818
MRDS ID W021984
MAS/MILS ID 0420290024
Record type Site
Current site name Downingtown Quarry & Plant
Alternate or previous names Bradford Hills Quarry
Related records 10075408

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -75.66963, 40.01251 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chester(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Downingtown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reading(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Brandywine-Christina(hydrologic unit)

Lower Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Pennsylvania Chester

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -75.66963, 40.01251

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner General Crushed Stone Co
    ID 3600029
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PENNDOT 1975

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-83 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusActive since 03/10/1976
MSHA mine ID3600029
Mine name (MSHA)Downingtown Quarry
Current operatorHeidelberg Materials Northeast LLC
Current controller (parent)Heidelberg Materials AG
Mine typeSurface (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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