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.
Population over time
2 figuresIron 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 737 | |
| 2020 | 640 | -97 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 surveys from 25 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.
- 1937 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:48000
- 1945 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1946 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Iron Mountain Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 2000 USGS Iron Mountain Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230895-09402-09262020-0931 |
| 2 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 May 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 April 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 28 April 1993 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 April 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buford Mtn | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Sheahan Granite Quarry | Tin, Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | 1888 | |
| Unknown - Lead | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Lead - Iron | Iron, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Granite C+B | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Graniteville Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Graniteville Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Graniteville Quarry and Mill | Granite | Producer | ||
| Schneider Quarry | Granite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron Mountain Lake | $200 | Large trees were blown over or snapped near Iron Mountain Lake. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Mountain | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Lopez | 3.1 miles | 24 | |
| Mineral City | 5.0 miles | 25 | |
| Bismarck | 5.3 miles | 21 | |
| Doe Run | 7.5 miles | 18 | |
| Loughboro | 7.9 miles | 21 | |
| Hamilton Town | 8.1 miles | 18 | |
| Rock Springs | 8.6 miles | 19 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q953321 | 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 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.
















