Mountain Iron, Minnesota
St. Louis County
27-44548
Mountain Iron is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in St. Louis County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Iron Mountain had 2869 inhabitants.
Mountain Iron is with the neighboring cities of Virginia, Eveleth and Gilbert part of the Quad Cities Minnesota.
The city bills itself as " Taconite Capital of the World" because of the subsidized here Takonits, which is obtained in the local belonging to the United States Steel Corporation Minntac Mine. The pre-processed ore is transported to the port cities on Lake Superior with the railroad and shipped from there by cargo ships to steel plants in the Great Lakes region.
Geography
Iron Mountain is located in northeastern Minnesota at the Mesabi Range, near the border with Canada. The geographic coordinates of Mountain Iron are 47 ° 31'09 " north latitude and 92 ° 36'23 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 184.69 km ², spread over 177.47 km ² land and 7.22 km ² water surface.
Towns nearby Mountain Iron are Virginia and Eveleth ( at the eastern city limits ), Gilbert (15,4 km east-southeast ), Iron Junction ( 14.4 km to the south), Buhl (13,6 km west-southwest ) and Kinney (12,2 km west ).
The nearest major cities are Duluth on Lake Superior (109 km south-southeast ), Minneapolis ( 321 km south-southwest ), Fargo, North Dakota ( 363 km west ), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (526 km north-west ) and Thunder Bay on Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada ( 348 km east-northeast ).
The border with Canada is located 163 km north.
Traffic
U.S. Highway 53 and the here running on the same route Minnesota State Route 169 form the eastern city limits. U.S. Highway 169 runs from its northern terminus in the neighboring city of Virginia as the main street of the town through the south of the urban area of Mountain Iron. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
A railway line of the Canadian National Railway ( CN) belonging Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway runs through the western city of Mountain Iron from the Takonitmine to the port cities of Duluth and Two Harbors on Lake Superior. Along the eastern boundary there is a trail of also belonging to CN Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway, to be transported to the other loads.
The nearest airports are the Range Regional Airport in Hibbing (36 km southwest), and the Duluth International Airport (103 km south-southeast ). The nearest major airports are the Thunder Bay International Airport ( 344 km west-northwest ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 328 km south-southeast ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Mountain Iron 2869 people in 1336 households. The population density was 184.69 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1336 households lived statistically 2.14 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.8 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 2.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.4 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 43,147. The per capita income was $ 25,085. 10.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.