Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
79historic places
—earliest paper
1885formed
11,631pop. 2020
9cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 79 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Iron River, Crystal Falls, Stambaugh.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Iron County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1890
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
4,432
8,990
22,107
20,243
17,692
17,184
13,635
13,138
11,631
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
9 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Bates Cemetery
46.11939
-88.54818
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery
46.09999
-88.31166
Hematite Cemetery
46.23661
-88.46319
Indian Burial Ground
46.04082
-88.50972
Iron River Cemetery
46.10274
-88.63638
Resthaven Cemetery
46.09635
-88.67657
Rosehill Cemetery
46.15689
-88.76179
Stambaugh Cemetery
46.05556
-88.64028
Stambaugh Cemetery
46.07777
-88.6286
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
HMdb link
Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.