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Iron Mountain Lake, Missouri

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Iron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63624. It lies near Reservoir Hill. The Survey maps it on the Iron Mountain Lake quadrangle. 640 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Iron Mountain Lake within St. Francois County

Population over time

2 figures

Iron Mountain Lake fell from 737 to 640 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
2010737
2020640-97 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 25 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Iron Mountain Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4

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
26 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230895-09402-09262020-0931
2 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 1993Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1997Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Iron Mountain Lake: 20 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tin, 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
Buford MtnIron, ManganesePast Producer
Sheahan Granite QuarryTin, Stone, DimensionPast Producer1888
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead - IronIron, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Granite C+BStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Graniteville QuarryGranitePast Producer
Graniteville QuarryGranitePast Producer
Graniteville Quarry and MillGraniteProducer
Schneider QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francois County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron Mountain Lake in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindIron Mountain Lake$200Large trees were blown over or snapped near Iron Mountain Lake.

Every storm recorded in St. Francois 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
Iron Mountain1.0 miles24
Lopez3.1 miles24
Mineral City5.0 miles25
Bismarck5.3 miles21
Doe Run7.5 miles18
Loughboro7.9 miles21
Hamilton Town8.1 miles18
Rock Springs8.6 miles19

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953321The 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 756214. 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.