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Iron
Set off and organized from Marquette and a portion of Menominee in 1885.
Surrounding Counties: Gogebic, Ontonagon, Houghton, Baraga, Marquette, Dickinson
Selected general works
Bernhardt, Marcia, editor; Harold Bernhardt, major interviewer.
Pine to popple, people and places: coming out of the woods in Iron County, Michigan.
2007.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N F572.I66 P56 2007
Hill, Jack E.
A history of Iron County, Michigan. 1976.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N F 572.I66 H56 1976z
Dobson, Robert D.
The plank road and the first railroad: from Marquette, Michigan, to Negaunee and Ishpeming. 2007.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N TE245.D638 2007
Bernhardt, Debra E.
Men, mines and memories: iron mining in Iron County, Michigan. 2001.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N F572.I66 M36 2001
Selected newspapers
Crystal Falls.
DIAMOND DRILL. • 1887-1996.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM NEWSPAPERS 2S
Iron River.
IRON RIVER REPORTER. • 1921-2003.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM NEWSPAPERS 2S
Iron River.
IRON COUNTY REPORTER. • 2003-2009.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM NEWSPAPERS 2S
Selected plats, maps, and atlases
Rockford Map Publishers.
Land atlas & plat book, Iron County, Michigan. Assorted years, 1979-2014/2015.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N G 1413 .I7 R62 [year]
Michigan. Geological Survey.
Atlas accompanying reports on Upper Peninsula, 1869-1873 / Geological Survey of Michigan. [1873].
LIB OF MICH RARE MICH 4N Folio QE125 .A12 1873
Michigan. State Highway Commission.
Highway and recreational information map. Iron County. [1974].
LIB OF MICH MICH DOCS FLAT FILE 2N G4113.I7 1974 .M53
Selected records, indexes, and transcriptions
Stromberg, Dennis & Cheryl.
Diamond drill obituary index. [2000].
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N F572.I66 D53
Colby, Fern G.
Index to the History of Iron County, Michigan, by Jack Hill. 1957.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N F572.I66 H54 Index
Selected government publications
Hyde, Charles K. and Diane B. Abbott.
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan: an inventory of historic engineering and industrial sites. 1978.
LIB OF MICH US DOCS 4S I 70.9:M 58; LIB OF MICH - MICH DOCS 2S T22.M5 U63 1978
Michigan Department of Commerce, Business Information
Economic profile of Iron County. 1975, 1977, 1986.
LIB OF MICH - MICH DOCS 2S HC107.M5 A1 Iron 1977
Updated 11/23/2022