Iron Mountain, Michigan Iron Mountain, Michigan Iron Mountain City Hall Iron Mountain City Hall Location of Iron Mountain, Michigan Location of Iron Mountain, Michigan State Michigan Iron Mountain is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Michigan.
It is the governmental center of county of Dickinson County, in the state's Upper Peninsula.
Iron Mountain was titled for the valuable iron ore found in the vicinity. Iron Mountain is the principal town/city of the Iron Mountain, MI-WI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Dickinson County, Michigan and Florence County in Wisconsin.
Iron Mountain hosts a several points of interest such as the Millie Hill bat cave, The Cornish Pump, and is positioned adjoining to Pine Mountain ski jump/ski resort, one of the biggest artificial ski jumps in the world. It shares Woodward Avenue with the neighboring town, Kingsford.
In addition, Iron Mountain is known for its pasties, Bocce Ball Tournaments, World Cup Ski Jumps, and Italian cuisine.
Iron Mountain was also titled a "Michigan Main Street" improve by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm in 2006.
It is one of only thirteen such communities in the State of Michigan in 2008.
It is also the hometown of Michigan State University men's basketball coach Tom Izzo and former NFL head coach Steve Mariucci.
4.2.1 Iron Mountain aerial cable fitness According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.04 square miles (20.82 km2), of which, 7.37 square miles (19.09 km2) of it is territory and 0.67 square miles (1.74 km2) is water. The Iron Mountain region is served by Ford Airport (airport code: KIMT).
Located three miles west of the city, the airport handles approximately 7,600 operations per year, with roughly 27% commercial service, 57% air taxi and 16% general aviation.
There were 3,784 housing units at an average density of 513.4 per square mile (198.2/km2).
There were 3,362 homeholds of which 28.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.3% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 39.8% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.83.
The median age in the town/city was 42.4 years.
22.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.9% were from 25 to 44; 29.3% were from 45 to 64; and 17.2% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 3,819 housing units at an average density of 530.5 per square mile (204.8/km ).
There were 3,458 homeholds out of which 30.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.8% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 37.9% were non-families.
33.3% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.94.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.1% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 19.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 9.4% of families and 10.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 13.5% of those under age 18 and 10.5% of those age 65 or over.
Iron Mountain aerial cable fitness Iron Mountain has a network of encrypted low-powered UHF repeaters, similar in concept to the subscription tv services implemented in larger markets in the 1970s and early-1980s.
Radio stations that are positioned inside listening range of Iron Mountain include: WNMU-FM 90.1 FM Northern Michigan University Marquette, Phone National Public Radio WVCM 91.5 FM VCY America Iron Mountain, Religious WIMK 93.1 FM Iron Mountain, Phone Classic Rock WIKB-FM 99.1 FM Iron River, Phone Oldies WJNR 101.5 FM Iron Mountain, Frog Country WHTO 106.7 FM Iron Mountain, 80's Rock WFER 1230 AM Iron River, Phone Oldies WMIQ 1450 AM Iron Mountain, Phone Talk Iron Mountain's abandoned Millie Hill mine is home to one of the biggest bat hibernacula in the Midwest.
Geologic map of the Iron Mountain region Iron Mountain is positioned inside the Menominee Iron-Bearing District, which covers southern Dickinson County and extends westward into Iron County.
Iron ore was identified in Dickinson County in 1849 and Iron County in 1851.
Ore is produced from the middle Precambrian Vulcan Iron-Formation around Iron Mountain, and the Riverton Iron-Formation between Iron River, Michigan and Crystal Falls, Michigan.
Iron Mountain was once a quarrying city when the Chapin Mine was up and running.
The shaft was 90 feet (27 m) deep and many months later, there was a prosperous hit that was at the heart of the iron ore.
To get rid of all this water the Chapin Mine Pumping Engine was created.
Iron Mountain is home of the biggest steam-driven pumping engine in the United States. Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine (Cornish Pump) was patterned after the ones used in Cornwall in the deep tin mines.
The pumping equipment utilized a reciprocating motion to a line of steel rods extending 1,500 feet (460 m) down into the mine, with eight pumps attached at intervals of 170 to 192 feet (59 m) along the rods.
Each of the pumps forced the water to the next higher pump and finally out to the surface of the mine.
As the engine was designed to run slowly, the pumps had a capacity of over 300 gallons per stroke of the pistons.
After only a several years of prosperous operation, the enormous pumping facility was moved from the "D" shaft of the Chapin Mine.
In 1898 the pump was dismantled and stored away until 1907 when it was reassembled on the "C" shaft of the Chapin Mine.
In 1934 the pumping engine was offered to the County of Dickinson as a relic for sightseers to visit.
The pump remained exposed to the elements for nearly 50 years, and in 1982 a building was constructed around the pump by the Menominee Range Historical Foundation.
The Chapin Mine Pumping Engine (Cornish Pump) was designated as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Monument by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on June 6, 1987 and has been featured in the History Channel's Modern Marvels Series on the World's Biggest Machines.
Randy Awrey 1975 DII National Champion football player at Northern Michigan University, current head football coach at Concordia University Chicago Tom Izzo, men's basketball head coach for Michigan State University since 1995 Phillip Rahoi, Michigan State Representative and Michigan State Senator for 6 terms; later Mayor of Iron Mountain. Wilke, Michigan State Senator According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Iron Mountain has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Climate data for Iron Mountain, Michigan (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1899 present) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 10.3 6.3 5.6 2.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 4.0 8.7 37.7 United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"Iron Ore deposits of the Menominee District, Michigan".
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"Iron Mountain, Michigan Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
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