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Iron Mountain is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 8,154. It is the county seat of Dickinson County6, in the state's Upper Peninsula.

US 2 (running concurrently with US 141) connects with M-69 at Crystal Falls, about 20 miles northwest, and with US 8 at Norway, about six miles east. US 141 north merges with US 2 just east of the city. US 141 continues south into Wisconsin. M-95 connects with Kingsford just to the south and with M-69 east at Randville about 14 miles north.

Iron Mountain host a few points of interests such as the Millie Hill bat cave, The Cornish Pump, and is located adjacent to Pine Mountain ski jump/ski resort.

The Pine Mountain ski jump is one of the highest artificially created ski jumps in the world.
Specifications:
Scaffold Height - 176 feet
Scaffold Length - 380 feet
Length of Underhill (end of take-off to outrun) - 632 feet
Length of Underhill (end of scaffold to end of outrun) - 1032 feet
Critical point (K-point) of landing hill - 394 feet
Pitch of Landing Hill - 39 degrees
Estimated speed of skiers at takeoff (wind and other factors makes this variable) - 55 mph

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 20.2 km² (7.8 mi²). 18.6 km² (7.2 mi²) of it is land and 1.6 km² (0.6 mi²) of it (7.69%) is water.

Iron Mountain is located at 45°49'12.87"N, 88°04'00"W

Iron Mountain's abandoned Millie Hill mine is home to one of the largest bat hibernacula in the Midwest. Roughly 25,000-50,000 bats make their winter home there.

The Chapin Mine Pumping Engine (Cornish Pump) was designated as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Monument by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on June 6, 1987 and has been featured in the History Channel's Modern Marvels Series on the World's Biggest Machines.

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