Iron Junction, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55751. The Survey maps it on the Eveleth quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,388 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresIron Junction grew from 86 to 110 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 | 86 | |
| 2020 | 110 | +24 (+28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1951 USGS Eveleth quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
259 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 259 fires within 5 miles of Iron Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 502 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 74 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 74 |
| Debris and open burning | 65 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 71 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | JUNCTION 101 FIRE |
| 26 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.1 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 Junction: 28 past producers, 7 producers, 2 plants, 2 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62 | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1943 | |
| Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17w | Iron, Water, Free | Prospect | Surface | |
| Security Mine | Iron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | 1961 | |
| Gulbranson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gulbranson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Aad Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1904 | |
| Alice Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Hematite, Magnetite | |
| Alice Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Auburn Mine | Iron | Producer | Hematite, Magnetite | |
| Burns Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1918 |
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.
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 Junction | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230609 | 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 661552. 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.





