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.
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
Ardis Furnacelisted 1972
Chapin Mine Steam Pump Enginelisted 1981
Dickinson County Courthouse and Jaillisted 1980
Immaculate Conception Churchlisted 1990
Iron Mountain Central Historic Districtlisted 2013
Upper Twin Falls Bridgelisted 2012- Iron Mountain Veterans Administration (VA) Hospitallisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresIron 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7,624 | |
| 2020 | 7,518 | -106 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:48000
- 1941 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:48000
- 1947 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
145 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.6 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BLACK WALNUT |
| 21 September 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000259 - 2018 |
| 17 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DYNAMITE FIRE |
| 17 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DICKINSON 0003 |
| 30 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BALZA |
| 25 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BREITUNG TOWNSHIP FD 2019-44 - 2019 |
| 16 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000174 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 39 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Greenstone Deposit | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Caspian Const Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fayas Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Feeder Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Florence County Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Francis Hazewood Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jackie Foster, Inc. Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Leslie Larson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| M-35 Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Menominee River Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1995 | Hail | Iron Mountain | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antoine | 1.2 miles | 11 | |
| East Kingsford | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Kingsford | 1.8 miles | 11 | |
| Skidmore | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| White Birch Estates | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| Quinnesec | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Merriman | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Granite Bluff | 8.2 miles | 11 |
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 Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q567814 | The 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.






