This is a list of notable quarries and areas of quarrying in the United States. A number of these are historic quarries listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), ranging from relatively ancient archeological sites to places having pre-World War II activity. This includes major areas of continuing, modern quarrying.

According to Marble.com, in 2016 there were 276 quarries producing natural stone in 34 states, and states producing the most granite were Texas, Massachusetts, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The term "quarry" refers also to sites producing aggregate, molding sand, or other resources besides cut stone.

There were numerous more quarries in the U.S. during the 1800s and 1900s than are operational now. In Oregon, a state with much less activity than Vermont and other bigger quarrying states, there were more than 250 quarries operational at one time or another. In 1906 the state mineralogist of California reported on 52 granite quarrying areas in 17 counties.. Derived from "The Structural and Industrial Materials of California", Bulletin No. 38, by Lewis E. Auburn, State Mineralogist, San Francisco, California, 1906

Many quarries were opened temporarily to provide stone for one or a few local or regional construction projects, but could not compete later when railroads allowed for economical transportation of heavy building materials to the area. Quarrying spurred the construction of railways and vice versa, from the 1826 construction of the Granite Railway in Massachusetts to the modern day.

Quarries in the U.S. Quarries in the United States, former and current, include:

Arizona Cochise Marble Company, Bowie, Arizona, on-site quarrying, blocks, aggregates, calcium carbonate 99.5%, established 1908 in the Chiricahua Mountains; colors: white, grey, black, blue

Arkansas Lake Catherine Quarry, Malvern, Arkansas, NRHP-listed Ozark Southern Stone quarry, Elk Ranch, Arkansas, rich in dolomite limestone. Opened in 1883 as Eureka Stone Co.

California Chile Bar Slate company quarry, off of highway CA193 next to the American River near Placerville, California Limestone quarry near Auburn, California of the Mountain Quarries Company of San Francisco, a subsidiary of Pacific Portland Cement Company, near confluence of the North Fork and the Middle Fork of the American River. Served by Mountain Quarries Bridge (1912), NRHP-listed. Stringfellow Acid Pits a former rock quarry in Jurupa Valley in Riverside County, California, which became a toxic waste dump and later a Superfund site. Deemed one of the most polluted sites in California in 1980s, and associated with mismanagement and scandal in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. California Granite Company, Rocklin, California, NRHP-listed granite quarry with historic structures. Permanente Quarry, in Santa Clara County, California, a limestone and aggregate quarry and cement plant Griffith Quarry, Penryn, California, NRHP-listed North Chuckwalla Mountain Quarry District, near Desert Center, California, NRHP-listed. An address-restricted archeological site in Riverside County, California

Colorado Aberdeen Quarry, an abandoned granite quarry in Gunnison County, Colorado. Its granite was used in construction of the Colorado State Capitol Marble, Colorado, only site of Yule Marble quarrying, in the West Elk Mountains. 99.5% pure calcite, discovered in 1873, source of marble for the Tomb of the Unknowns and for the exterior of the Lincoln Memorial

Connecticut Norcross Brothers Granite Quarry, Branford, Connecticut, NRHP-listed Portland Brownstone Quarries, Portland, Connecticut, NRHP-listed, source of much of the brownstone used in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia Luman Andrews House, Southington, Connecticut, NRHP-listed. Identified in 1825 to be a site of blue limestone, suitable for making Portland cement, which previously had to be imported from England New England Cement Company Kiln and Quarry, Woodbridge, Connecticut, NRHP-listed

Florida Cemex Miami SCL Aggregates Quarry, Miami, Florida, source of limestone Spanish Coquina Quarries, St. Augustine Beach, Florida, NRHP-listed, source of coquina

Georgia Burns Quarry, near Carrollton, Georgia, NRHP-listed. Address-restricted archeological site, NRHP-listed in Carroll County Stone Mountain, Georgia, site of granite quarrying from the 1830s. Its granite was used in the locks of the Panama Canal and in steps to the U.S. Capitol building. The mountain is known for its Confederate memorial carving started by Gutzon Borglum and for association with the Ku Klux Klan revival in 1916.

Hawaii Mauna Kea Adz Quarry, Hilo, Hawaii, NRHP-listed

Idaho Harvey Mountain Quarry, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, NRHP-listed

Illinois Thornton Quarry, just south of Chicago, Illinois. One of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, long, 0.5 miles wide, and up to 450 feet deep, site of a Silurian reef. Quarried since 1836. The quarry also acts as an emergency flood control reservoir as part of Chicago Deep Tunnel project.

Indiana Marengo warehouse, in Marengo, Indiana, formerly a limestone quarry, now one of the largest subterranean storage facilities in the nation, with nearly space. It began as an open pit quarry in 1886 due in part to its proximity to a railroad. Underground room and pillar mining began in 1936. Leased storage began in 1986. Used by the U.S. Department of Defense for storage of 10,000,000 MRE meals, by Bridgestone for storage of 400,000 tires, and by Controlled Pharming Ventures for growing tomatoes and corn.

Indiana is the Limestone Capital of the world. Many quarries are located in southern Indiana, including The Empire Quarry, which supplied stone for The Empire State Building. Oolitic Indiana is home to Indiana Limestone Corporation, the longest operating stone quarry in the United States.

Iowa State Quarry, Iowa Men's Reformatory, Anamosa, Iowa, NRHP-listed, includes a quarry T.J. Gipple's stone quarry, near NRHP-listed Gipple's Quarry Bridge (1893), Columbus Junction, Iowa Old State Quarry, North Liberty, Iowa, NRHP-listed Quarry, Iowa, site of limestone quarrying in Marshall County, Iowa. Town was laid out by Le Grand Quarry Company in 1868. Nearby Quarry Bridge, in Marshalltown, Iowa, is NRHP-listed. Stone City, Iowa, site of Anamosa Limestone quarrying

Kansas Quarry Creek Archeological Site, Leavenworth, Kansas, NRHP-listed, a large archeological site of the prehistoric Kansas City Hopewell culture Dennis Quarry, near Onaga, Kansas, NRHP-listed. Address-restricted; a prehistoric lithic quarry (PDF)

Kentucky Mega Cavern, a cavern in Louisville, Kentucky created by limestone quarrying over 42 years during the middle of the 20th century. Deemed the largest building in the state, it has and is now used for tourism including zip lines, for storage and other business.

Maine Willard Brook Quarry, in Piscataquis County, Maine, near Chisuncook, Maine, NRHP-listed Franklin, Maine, granite quarries, in one of which the NRHP-listed Robertson Quarry Galamander, a customized wagon for stone, was found.

Maryland Beaver Dam, Maryland, a now "flooded marble quarry in Cockeysville, Maryland, that has been used as a swimming location since the 1930s. Source of dolomitic marble known specifically as Cockeysville Marble for the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. and many other purposes in the eastern U.S. Greenspring Quarry, now a lake, Pikesville, Maryland Heath Farm Jasper Quarry Archeological Site, Elkton, Maryland, NRHP-listed Iron Hill Cut Jasper Quarry Archeological Site, Elkton, Maryland, NRHP-listed Magothy Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site, Pasadena, Maryland, NRHP-listed, Quartzite and sandstone quarries of the Woodland period Seneca Quarry, Seneca, Maryland, NRHP-listed, source of Seneca red sandstone used in two Potomac River canals: the Potowmack Canal (opened in 1802, and officially known as the Great Falls Skirting Canal) on the Virginia side of Great Falls; and the C&O Canal. Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries, Whiteford, Maryland, NRHP-listed, active from 1700 to 1000 B.C

Massachusetts Fall River quarrying, Fall River, Massachusetts, source of granite for many of 39 textile mill complexes and other local buildings, both before and after 1843 fire. Downloadable from MACRIS (click on "NR")] Massachusetts Hornfels-Braintree Slate Quarry, Milton and Quincy, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed, archaeological site used from 7,000 B.P. until the early 17th century as a source of slate and hornfels used for chipped and ground tools. W.N. Flynt Granite Co., in Monson, Massachusetts, a granite quarry that opened in 1809 and operated until 1935. By 1888, the company employed over 200 workers, and produced about 30,000 tons of granite per year. Quincy Quarries Reservation, in Quincy, Massachusetts, producer of granite from 1826 to 1963, including for the Bunker Hill Monument. Site of the Granite Railway, often credited as the first commercial railroad in the United States Fletcher Granite Company, operated a granite quarry that opened in 1881 in Westford, Massachusetts, and in 2009 it owned a quarry in Milford, New Hampshire.

Michigan Green Quarry Site, Mears, Michigan, NRHP-listed, "the only known source of Lambrix chert" Pewangoing Quarry, Norwood Township, Michigan, NRHP-listed, site of tool-making from Early Archaic period through Late Woodland period Calcite Limestone Quarry, Rogers City, Michigan, the largest limestone quarry in the world, now owned by Carmeuse and operated as Carmeuse Calcite Operations. Limestone was first mined here in 1912 and continues through the present.

Minnesota Clark and McCormack Quarry and House, Rockville, Minnesota, NRHP-listed. Established in 1907, was the source of Rockville Pink granite. Grand Meadow Quarry Archeological District, Grand Meadow, Minnesota, NRHP-listed. Site of pre-historic chert mining. Jasper Stone Company and Quarry, Jasper, Minnesota, NRHP-listed. Quarry established c. 1890, an early regional source of Sioux Quartzite for construction, and since World War I a leading international producer of silicon dioxide for industrial abrasives. Louis Hultgren House and Sand Pit, Kerrick, Minnesota, NRHP-listed. A molding sand quarry. Pipestone National Monument, in southwestern Minnesota, near Pipestone, Minnesota, site of quarrying for catlinite, also known as "pipestone", used by Plains Indians to make ceremonial pipes Kettle River Sandstone Company Quarry, Sandstone, Minnesota, NRHP-listed Coldspring (company), founded originally as Rockville Granite Company to exploit granite from Rockville, Minnesota, moved in 1920, to the town of Cold Spring, Minnesota and becoming the Cold Spring Granite Company. The company became the largest quarrier in the country by 1930. It now has quarries and works in Minnesota, New York, South Dakota, Texas, California and Canada.

Missouri Crescent Quarry Archeological Site, Crescent, Missouri, NRHP-listed Beaumont-Tyson Quarry District, St. Louis and Times Beach, Missouri, NRHP-listed, archeological sites

Montana California Creek Quarry, Anaconda, Montana, NRHP-listed West Quincy Granite Quarry, Square Butte, Montana, NRHP-listed

Nebraska Nehawka Flint Quarries, Nehawka, Nebraska, NRHP-listed

New Jersey M.C. Mulligan & Sons Quarry, Clinton, New Jersey, NRHP-listed, complex of three limestone quarries Houdaille Quarry, a quarry of basalt in the Watchung Mountains, in Union County, New Jersey. It began as the Commonwealth Quarry in early 1900s.

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