Milford Flagstone

Past Producer in Hunterdon county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021897
MRDS ID DE01543
Record type Site
Current site name Milford Flagstone

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.10267, 40.57807 (WGS84)
Elevation 98

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frenchtown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Delaware-Musconetcong(hydrologic unit)

Upper Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sandstone Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.10267, 40.57807

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N30E
    Dip 18 TO 20 NW
    Thickness 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1870
Year of last production 1895

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Adell Zich

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V., 1909, BUILDING STONES OF NEW JERSEY, IN KUMMEL, H.B., ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SANDSTONE BEDS INTERLEAVED WITH THIN SHEETS OF RED SHALE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1985 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

Beyond USGS

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