The thriving of automobile usage in the 1950s caused the rail passenger usage to wain, and the Milwaukee Road discontinued the Chippewa passenger train altogether on February 2, 1960. The W&M Railroad, after its abandonment was approved ended all service in 1938.

First was Milwaukee Road, then Chicago & Northwestern and Wisconsin and Michigan. Soon after this area was settled the news of mineral riches brought the railroads. The airport has a 6,501 foot asphalt runway with approved ILS, GPS and NDB approaches (Runway 1-19) and a 3,808 foot asphalt crosswind runway (Runway 13-31). 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. Commercial air travel is provided by SkyWest Airlines, providing jet service as Delta Connection. The Iron Mountain area is served by Ford Airport (airport code: KIMT). M-95 connects with Kingsford just to the south and with M-69 east at Randville about 14 miles (23 km) north.US 141 merges with US 2 just east of the city and heads northward toward Crystal Falls southbound it continues on to Green Bay, Wisconsin.US 2 runs east to Escanaba and west to Ironwood.Indian Trails provides daily intercity bus service between St. Geography Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.04 square miles (20.82 km 2), of which, 7.37 square miles (19.09 km 2) of it is land and 0.67 square miles (1.74 km 2) is water. In 2023, the city, its police department, and several police officers were sued for sexual harassment. It is also the hometown of Michigan State University men's basketball coach Tom Izzo and former NFL head coach Steve Mariucci. It is one of only thirteen such communities in the state of Michigan in 2008. Iron Mountain was also named a 'Michigan Main Street' community by Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm in 2006. In addition, Iron Mountain is known for its pasties, bocce ball tournaments, World Cup ski jumps, and Italian cuisine. It shares Woodward Avenue with the neighboring town, Kingsford. Iron Mountain hosts a few points of interest such as the Millie Hill bat cave and the Cornish Pump, and is located adjacent to the Pine Mountain Jump, one of the largest artificial ski jumps in the world. Iron Mountain is the principal city of the Iron Mountain, MI–WI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Dickinson County, Michigan and Florence County in Wisconsin. Iron Mountain was named for the valuable iron ore found in the vicinity. The population was 7,518 at the 2020 census, down from 7,624 at the 2010 census. Iron Mountain is a city and the county seat of Dickinson County, Michigan.

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