Mountain Iron
Mountain Iron is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States, in the heart of the Mesabi Range. The population was 2,878 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,910 residents
- Description: city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States
- Also known as: “City of Mountain Iron”, “Mountain Iron, Minnesota”, and “Mountain Iron, MN”
- Postal code: 55768
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mountain Iron Mine.
Mountain Iron Mine
Protected area
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Virginia and Kinney.
Virginia
Town
The Iron Range is a rural area in Northeastern Minnesota where iron ore has been mined for generations. This area has some cultural aspects more similar to the U.P. of Michigan than the surrounding area of Minnesota. Virginia is situated 4 miles east of Mountain Iron.
Kinney
Village
Kinney is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 152 at the time of the 2020 census. Kinney is situated 5 miles west of Mountain Iron.
Leonidas
Hamlet
Leonidas is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 50 at the 2020 census. Saint Louis County Roads 101 and 755, 1st Street, and 13th Avenue West are the main routes in the community. Leonidas is situated 5 miles southeast of Mountain Iron.
Mountain Iron
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Mountain Iron, St. Louis, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
47.53287° or 47° 31′ 58″ northLongitude
-92.62269° or 92° 37′ 22″ westPopulation
2,910Elevation
1,483 feet (452 metres)United Nations Location Code
US UIIOpen location code
86V9G9MG+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 151894354OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mountain Iron” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماونتن أيرون”
- Basque: “Mountain Iron”
- Catalan: “Mountain Iron”
- Cebuano: “Mountain Iron”
- Chechen: “Маунтин-Айрон”
- Chinese: “Mountain Iron”
- Chinese: “芒廷艾恩”
- Czech: “Mountain Iron”
- Danish: “Mountain Iron”
- Dutch: “Mountain Iron”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماونتن ايرون”
- French: “Mountain Iron”
- German: “Mountain Iron”
- Gilaki: “مأؤنتن آیرن (مينسؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “مأؤنتن آیرن”
- Haitian: “Mountain Iron, Minnesota”
- Haitian: “Mountain Iron”
- Ido: “Mountain Iron, Minnesota”
- Ido: “Mountain Iron”
- Irish: “Mountain Iron”
- Italian: “Mountain Iron”
- Kazakh: “Маунтэйн Айрон”
- Kirghiz: “Маунтэйн Айрон”
- Ladin: “Mountain Iron”
- Malagasy: “Mountain Iron, Minnesota”
- Malagasy: “Mountain Iron”
- Mazanderani: “ماونتین آیرون (مینهسوتا)”
- Mazanderani: “ماونتین آیرون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mountain Iron”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mountain Iron”
- Norwegian: “Mountain Iron”
- Persian: “ماونتین آیرون، مینهسوتا”
- Persian: “ماونتین آیرون”
- Polish: “Mountain Iron”
- Portuguese: “Mountain Iron”
- Russian: “Маунтин-Айрон”
- Serbian: “Маунтин Ајрон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mountain Iron, Minnesota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mountain Iron”
- Slovak: “Mountain Iron”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماونتین آیرون، مینهسوتا”
- Spanish: “Mountain Iron”
- Tatar: “Маунтин-Айрон”
- Ukrainian: “Маунтін-Айрон”
- Uzbek: “Mountain Iron”
- Vietnamese: “Mountain Iron, Minnesota”
- Vietnamese: “Mountain Iron”
- Volapük: “Mountain Iron”
- Welsh: “Mountain Iron, Minnesota”
- Welsh: “Mountain Iron”
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