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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.

Iron Junction within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Iron 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.

YearPeople Change
201086
2020110+24 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

259 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism74
Debris and open burning65
Railroad operations and maintenance49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance71 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesJUNCTION 101 FIRE
26 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Security MineIron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1961
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Aad MineIronPast Producer1904
Alice MineIronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Alice MineIronPast Producer
Auburn MineIronProducerHematite, Magnetite
Burns MineIronPast Producer1918

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Ramshaw1.3 miles12
Wolf2.2 miles12
Spruce2.2 miles12
Keenan2.5 miles12
De Forest3.1 miles12
Kirk3.1 miles14
Forbes3.3 miles12
Leonidas3.4 miles12

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 JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230609The 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.