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==Cities and towns== Some of the more significant communities in the region include: * [[Aitkin, Minnesota|Aitkin]] (pop. 2,165) is on the [[Cuyuna Range]]'s eastern edge. * [[Aurora, Minnesota|Aurora]] (pop. 1,853) is on the Eastern Mesabi Range. The former St. James, Meadow, Miller and Stephens mines lie within the city limits. * [[Babbitt, Minnesota|Babbitt]] (pop. 1,475) * [[Biwabik, Minnesota|Biwabik]] (pop. 969) * [[Bovey, Minnesota|Bovey]] (pop. 804) is along [[U.S. Highway 169]] between [[Coleraine, Minnesota|Coleraine]] and [[Taconite, Minnesota|Taconite]]. * [[Buhl, Minnesota|Buhl]] (pop. 1,000) is along U.S. Highway 169 between [[Chisholm, Minnesota|Chisholm]] and [[Virginia, Minnesota|Virginia]]. * [[Chisholm, Minnesota|Chisholm]] (pop. 4,976) is the Mesabi Range's geographic center. * [[Coleraine, Minnesota|Coleraine]] (pop. 1,970) has been called the "start place of the Iron Range." * [[Crosby, Minnesota|Crosby]] (pop. 2,386) is an old mining [[boomtown]] on the Iron Range's southwestern edge. * [[Deerwood, Minnesota|Deerwood]] (pop. 529) Mining engineer Cuyler Adams discovered the Cuyuna Range near Deerwood in 1895. * [[Ely, Minnesota|Ely]] (pop. 3,460), in the Vermillion Range, the most popular entry point for the [[Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness]]. * [[Eveleth, Minnesota|Eveleth]] (pop. 3,718) Home of the [[United States Hockey Hall of Fame|U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame]] * [[Grand Rapids, Minnesota|Grand Rapids]] (pop. 10,869) is named for the local rapids in the [[Mississippi River]]. * [[Gilbert, Minnesota|Gilbert]] (pop. 1,799) is the location of [[Lake Ore-be-gone]], an artificial lake created by flooding three open-pit iron ore mines. * [[Hibbing, Minnesota|Hibbing]] (pop. 16,361) is the largest city by area in the state of Minnesota. It is home to the [[Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine]], one of the world's largest open pit iron mines. * [[Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota|Hoyt Lakes]] (pop. 1,888) is in the eastern Mesabi Range. Erie Mining Company previously mined ore and testing to mine new minerals is ongoing. * [[Keewatin, Minnesota|Keewatin]] (pop. 1,068) is between Nashwauk and Hibbing. It is home to U.S. Steel's KeeTac taconite mining and processing plant. * [[Kinney, Minnesota|Kinney]] (pop. 169) is an old mining boomtown on the Iron Range, between [[Buhl, Minnesota|Buhl]] and [[Mountain Iron]]. * [[Mountain Iron]] (pop. 2,869) is home to Minntac, the world's largest taconite processing plant. * [[Nashwauk, Minnesota|Nashwauk]] (pop. 983) is a small town between Grand Rapids and Hibbing, 4 miles from Keewatin. * [[Soudan, Minnesota|Soudan]] is an unincorporated community in Breitung Township, Saint Louis County immediately east of the city of [[Tower, Minnesota|Tower]] on Minn.Highway 169 / Minn.Highway 1. It is the home of the [[Soudan Underground Mine State Park]], which contained the University of Minnesota's Soudan Underground Laboratory, which housed detectors, including MINOS, over 700 meters below the Earth's surface.<ref>[https://www.soudan.umn.edu/MINOS/index.shtml Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS)], Soudan Underground Laboratory</ref> * [[Taconite, Minnesota|Taconite]] (pop. 360), named after the taconite pellets from iron ore, was a town many miners lived in. * [[Virginia, Minnesota|Virginia]] (pop. 8,712) is next to the [[Rouchleau Mine|Rouchleau mine pit]], which is nearly three miles long, half a mile wide and 450 feet deep. The state's [[Thomas_Rukavina_Memorial_Bridge |tallest bridge]] crosses the pit. * [[Winton, Minnesota|Winton]] (pop 172). Once several times larger than Ely, Winton sits just 3 miles north of Ely, and was once home to a very large lumber mill and a lumber boomtown. Nearby communities important to the Iron Range: * [[Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth]] (pop. 86,265) The fourth largest city in the state, is a destination for much of the ore shipped via the DM&IR railroad and loaded onto [[Lake freighter]]s. A large part of the Iron Range is also included in the [[Twin Ports|Duluth MN-WI MSA]]. * [[Grand Marais, Minnesota|Grand Marais]] (pop. 1,351) The area was a bustling fur trading station since the 1700s, and the French [[voyageurs]] called the settled village Grand Marais ("Great Marsh"), referring to a marsh that in early fur-trading times was 20 acres (8.1 ha) or less in area, nearly at the level of Lake Superior, and situated at the head of the little bay and harbor that led to the settlement of the village. The town comprises much of the Gunflint Trail, which extends to the former [[Paulson Mine]] site. * [[Silver Bay, Minnesota|Silver Bay]] (pop 1,857) is home to the plant that processes taconite from Babbitt. * [[Two Harbors, Minnesota|Two Harbors]] (pop. 3,745) is the county seat of Lake County, along the shore of Lake Superior. It was historically an important port for loading and shipping iron ore from the Range.
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