Iron Mountain
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United States

Communities
  • Iron Mountain, Shasta County, California
  • Iron Mountain, Michigan
    Iron Mountain, Michigan
    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 County, in the state's Upper Peninsula....

    , a city
  • Iron Mountain, Missouri
    Iron Mountain, Missouri
    Iron Mountain is an unincorporated community in southwestern St. Francois County, Missouri. It is located about six miles south of Bismarck. The community was founded in 1836 as a mining site and it was named for nearby Iron Mountain, once thought to be made completely of iron ore.The railroad...

    , a community and historic mining area in St. Francois County
  • Farthing, Wyoming
    Farthing, Wyoming
    Farthing was a railroad station and post office in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Farthing is located southwest of Chugwater in the Chugwater Creek valley. The region was originally named Iron Mountain due to iron deposits discovered on a nearby ridge in 1850 and briefly mined in 1870...

    , also known as Iron Mountain


Mines
  • Iron Mountain Mine
    Iron Mountain Mine
    Iron Mountain Mine, also known as the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, is a mine near Redding in Northern California. Geologically classified as a "massive sulfide ore deposit", the site was mined for iron, silver, gold, copper, zinc, and pyrite intermittently from the 1860s until 1963...

    , a toxic mine and Superfund site near Redding, California
  • Iron Mountain District
    Iron Mountain District
    The Iron Mountain District, also known as the Iron Springs District, is a large, high-grade iron deposit in southwestern Utah, near Cedar City. It is currently owned and operated by Iron Bull Mining and Milling, a division of Palladon Ventures. Previous owners include Geneva Steel and U.S...

    , a series of magnetite and hematite deposits in southwestern Utah


Summits
  • Iron Mountain (Los Angeles County), California
  • Iron Mountain (Napa County, California)
    Iron Mountain (Napa County, California)
    Iron Mountain, located in Napa County, California, is approximately 2 miles from the western shore of Lake Berryessa....

  • Iron Mountain (Colorado), Sangre de Cristo Mountains
    Sangre de Cristo Mountains
    The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains. They are located in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in the United States...

  • Iron Mountain (Florida)
    Iron Mountain (Florida)
    Iron Mountain is one of the highest points in peninsular Florida, USA and a prominent point of the Lake Wales Ridge. The mountain contains citronelle, a hematite-containing rock that oxidizes when exposed to air and is responsible for the red-brown color of the earth. The ridge is located just...

  • Iron Mountain (Jefferson County, Montana) in Jefferson County, Montana
  • Iron Mountain (Meagher County, Montana) in Meagher County, Montana
  • Iron Mountain (Park County, Montana) in Park County, Montana
  • Iron Mountain (Powell County, Montana) in Powell County, Montana
  • Iron Mountain (Sweet Grass County, Montana) in Sweet Grass County, Montana
  • Iron Mountain (Oregon)
  • Iron Mountain (South Dakota)
  • Iron Mountain (Utah)
    Iron Mountain (Utah)
    Iron Mountain, in southwestern Utah, is the namesake of Iron County, Utah. Its summit is above sea level and is located at . It has a long history of iron mining, in the form of magnetite and hematite. Mining at this site goes back to Brigham Young and Mormon pioneers in the 1850s. The early...



Ranges
  • Iron Mountains
    Iron Mountains
    The Iron Mountains are a minor range of the Appalachian Mountains. These mountains are located around the common meeting point of Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina...

    , a sub-range of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina
  • Iron Mountains (California)
    Iron Mountains (California)
    The Iron Mountains are a mountain range in San Bernardino County, California....

    , in the Mojave Desert

Czech Republic

Ranges
  • Iron Mountains (Czech Republic) / Železné hory, a mountain ridge in Chrudim District
    Chrudim District
    Chrudim District is a district within Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is city of Chrudim.-Overview:...

     in the middle of Czech Republic

Fictional

  • Iron Mountains, the realm of Morgoth in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium

Other uses

  • Iron Mountain Incorporated
    Iron Mountain Incorporated
    Iron Mountain Inc , founded in 1951, is a company whose headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts. It offers records management, information destruction and data backup services to more than 120,000 customers throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia...

    , a company specializing in records management
  • Iron Mountain (riverboat)
    Iron Mountain (Riverboat)
    The Iron Mountain was a stern-wheeler that plied the Mississippi River from 1864 until 1872.Built in 1864, the boat was 54.86 meters long and had a 10.67 meter beam. Its fame comes from the fact that in June 1872 when traveling from New Orleans to Pittsburgh, loaded with cotton and sugar, it...

    , a Mississippi riverboat
  • The Report from Iron Mountain
    The Report From Iron Mountain
    The Report from Iron Mountain is a book published in 1967 by Dial Press which puts itself forth as the report of a government panel. The book includes the claim it was authored by a Special Study Group of fifteen men whose identities were to remain secret and that it was not intended to be made...

    , a hoax on think tanks and war planning
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