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Iron Mountain, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Iron Mountain City. It lies in ZIP code area 49801. It lies near Millie Hill. The Survey maps it on the Iron Mountain quadrangle. 7,518 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

Iron Mountain within Dickinson County

On record in Iron Mountain

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Iron Mountain fell from 7,624 to 7,518 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,624
20207,518-106 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Iron Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 387 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Debris and open burning3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK WALNUT
21 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000259 - 2018
17 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDYNAMITE FIRE
17 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDICKINSON 0003
30 August 2012Debris and open burning1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBALZA
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBREITUNG TOWNSHIP FD 2019-44 - 2019
16 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000174 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Iron Mountain: 23 past producers, 8 producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Niagara Greenstone DepositStone, DimensionOccurrence
Caspian Const Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fayas Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Feeder Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Florence County Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Francis Hazewood Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jackie Foster, Inc. PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leslie Larson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M-35 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Menominee River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron Mountain in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995HailIron Mountain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Antoine1.2 miles11
East Kingsford1.7 miles11
Kingsford1.8 miles11
Skidmore2.0 miles11
White Birch Estates2.0 miles11
Quinnesec4.2 miles11
Merriman6.7 miles11
Granite Bluff8.2 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Iron MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q567814The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 629079. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.