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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