Iron County, Wisconsin

administration
The Old Iron County Courthouse in Hurley, listed on the NRHP since 1977
US state :	Wisconsin
Administrative headquarters :	Hurley
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 300 Taconite Street Hurley, WI 54534-1546
Foundation :	March 1, 1893
Made up from:	Ashland County Oneida County
Area code :	001 715
Demographics
Residents :	5916 (2010)
Population density :	3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2381 km²
Water surface :	420 km²
map

Website : www.co.iron.wi.gov

The Iron County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , the county had 5,916 people and a population density of 3 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Hurley , named after M. A. Hurley , a local judge and owner of an iron ore mine.

geography

The county is located in northern Wisconsin and is bordered to the north by Michigan and Lake Superior , the largest of the five Great Lakes .

Iron County covers an area of 2381 square kilometers, of which 420 square kilometers are water.

In the south of the county is the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage , a reservoir of the Flambeau River, which belongs to the Mississippi basin over the Chippewa River .

The following neighboring counties border Iron County:

		Gogebic County, Michigan
Ashland County		Vilas County
	Price County

history

Iron County was formed on March 1, 1893 from parts of Ashland County and Oneida County. It was named after the iron ore deposits and mines that existed here.

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	6616	-
1910	8306	25.5%
1920	10,261	23.5%
1930	9933	-3.2%
1940	10,049	1.2%
1950	8714	-13.3%
1960	7830	-10.1%
1970	6533	-16.6%
1980	6730	3%
1990	6153	-8.6%
2000	6861	11.5%
2010	5916	-13.8%
2012 estimate	5934	0.3%
1900–1990 2000 2010–2012

As of the 2010 census , Iron County had 5,916 people in 3,003 households. The population density was 3 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 1.95 people lived in each of the 3,003 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.7 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 0.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

15.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 27.5 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 37,112 USD . The per capita income was $ 22,685. 16.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Iron County towns

Citys

Census-designated places (CDP)

Other Unincorporated Communities

structure

In addition to the two cities, Iron County is divided into ten towns :

Town	Population (2010)	FIPS
Town of Anderson	58	55-01925
Town of Carey	163	55-12525
Town of Gurney	159	55-31875
Town of Kimball	498	55-39625
Town of Knight	211	55-40075
Town of Mercer	1407	55-51200
Town of Grandma	289	55-59850
Town of Pence	163	55-61825
Town of Saxon	324	55-71875
Town of Sherman	290	55-73400

Individual evidence

↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 77000031.Retrieved April 4, 2011

↑ Iron County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.Retrieved February 22, 2011
↑ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Iron County, WI ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 17, 2014 @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b National Association of Counties.Retrieved February 17, 2014
^ Extract from Census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011
↑ Missouri Census Data Center - Wisconsin ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 17, 2014 @1@ 2

Web links

Commons : Iron County, Wisconsin - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

46.33 -90.26Coordinates: 46 ° 20 ′ N , 90 ° 16 ′ W

[1] Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 77000031.Retrieved April 4, 2011