Mountain Iron, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,700 ft 520 m1,610 ft 490 m1,440 ft 440 m1,270 ft 390 m1,190 ft 360 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mountain Iron sits at about 1,430 ft (435 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,430 ft 435 m
most residents: 1,410–1,480 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,510 ft 460 m
all land inside city limits
Mountain Iron spans about 680 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mountain Iron | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Airport (HIB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi southwest of the city limits | 1,354 ft413 m |
| Average of all land | 1,510 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 2,847 2024 est.
- Land area
- 68.1 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.5324° N, 92.6235° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Louis River
- Airport
- Range Regional (HIB) 1,354 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 55710 55734 55751 55768 55792
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eveleth1,610 ft
- Gilbert1,560 ft
- Kinney1,550 ft
- Buhl1,520 ft
- Wuori Township1,470 ft
- Leonidas1,450 ft
- Virginia1,440 ft
- Mountain Iron1,430 ft
- Great Scott Township1,420 ft
- Clinton Township1,370 ft
- Iron Junction1,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota279th highest of 2,692
- Towns in St. Louis County33rd highest of 103
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pike Mountain1,934 ft
- Lookout Mountain, St. Louis County1,850 ft
- Maple Hill, St. Louis County1,650 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,120 ft at 47.5329° N, 92.6426° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.