How can I find recorded pits, quarries and petroleum wells near a Kingston home?

The Province's Find Pits and Quarries map shows the sites licensed or permitted under the Aggregate Resources Act and can count the sites near a point you choose. The Province says a pit on private land in a part of Ontario not regulated under the Act may not appear; Ontario Regulation 244/97 lists the City of Kingston and the Townships of Kingston, Pittsburgh and Storrington among the designated parts. A licence on the map doesn't mean a site is digging today, and a newly approved site can take time to appear. Kingston's Zoning By-law 2022-62 adds its own distances: 300 metres between a residential use and a lot with a gravel pit in an MX1 zone, and 500 metres from a lot with a mineral aggregate operation in one, with uses that existed when the by-law passed deemed to conform.

The petroleum wells dataset records the location of wells drilled for oil or gas, for salt, or for storing hydrocarbons underground. Both are records of what was licensed or drilled, not a history of every use of a piece of land: a blank result is not proof that land was never a pit, a dump or a factory.

• Find Pits and Quarries: the Province's map of aggregate licences and permits
• Ontario Regulation 244/97: the parts of Ontario designated under the Aggregate Resources Act (Schedule 1)
• Petroleum wells dataset: well locations, on the Ontario Data Catalogue
• Zoning By-law 2022-62, Part 1: section 4.26, separation from aggregate operations (PDF)

Past land use nearby runs for any Ontario address. The free check measures the distance to the nearest mapped aggregate site and petroleum well on the spot. The full report adds waste management sites and federal contaminated sites to the same group. None of it is a soil test or an environmental site assessment.

Free check: pick “Past land use nearby” See the sample report