IRONWOOD, a city of Gogebic county, Michigan, U.S.A., in the western tip of the Upper Peninsula, on the Montreal river. It is on Federal highway 2, and is served by the Chicago and North Western, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic and the Soo Line railways. The population was 15,739 in 1920 (37% foreign-born white) and was 14,299 by the Federal census of 1930. It is the metropolis of Gogebic county, which in 1926 mined 5,756,38o gross tons of iron ore, and some of the largest mines are within the city limits. Lumbering, stock-raising and farming also are impor
tant. Ironwood was settled in 1884, chartered as a city in 1889, and in 1890 had already a population of 7,745. Since 1925 it has had a city-manager form of government.