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Photograph of Mountain Iron Mine
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Mountain Iron Mine

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1968.

From the record

“Mountain Iron Mine is a former mine in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, United States. Opened in 1892, it was the first mine on the Mesabi Range, which has proved to be the largest iron ore deposit ever discovered in the United States.”

Wikipedia article Mountain Iron Mine, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1968 · category: Site · built in 1892 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. N of Mountain Iron, Mountain Iron
  • When was it listed? November 1968
  • Category. site
  • When was it built? 1892
  • National Register reference number. 68000052 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Iron, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 1998LightningMountain Iron$400,000no account filed
June 2024HailMountain Iron-The hail caused damage to a roof and a car.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindMountain Iron-Winds blew down power lines contributing to power outages in the area.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMountain Iron-Multiple trees were blown down in the Parkville area. Some were uprooted and some were snapped off.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMountain Iron-Trees were blown down.
June 2024HailMountain Iron-no account filed
June 2018HailMountain Iron-no account filed
July 2012HailMountain Iron-no account filed
July 2003HailMountain Iron-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMountain Iron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 68000052 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis CountyAll 126 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.