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Iron County, Wisconsin

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1893formed

6,137pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Hurley, Montreal, Pence.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Wisconsin is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Iron titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Annala Round Barn	Hurley	Building	1979
Montreal Company Location Historic District	Montreal	District	1980
Old Iron County Courthouse	Hurley	Building	1977
Plummer Mine Headframe	Pence	Structure	1997
Springstead	Sherman	Building	1997

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Iron was formed in 1893 (1893-03-03) from Ashland.

IRON created from ASHLAND.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Iron County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,616	10,261	10,049	8,714	7,830	6,730	6,861	6,137

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

7 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Calvary Cemetery	46.37726	-90.40823
Edgewood Cemetery	46.49722	-90.50842
Greenwood Cemetery	46.37723	-90.40913
Hillside Cemetery	46.3997	-90.33777
Lake View Cemetery	46.50105	-90.42295
Mercer Cemetery	46.15807	-90.0545
Saint Marys Cemetery	46.44327	-90.18183

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

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