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.
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
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.