Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Iron Mountain Lake was built recently: 0.8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1966. Below: maps from 1945 on and the census since 1990.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Iron Mountain Lake’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Iron Mountain Lake yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Iron Mountain Lake is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, Iron Mountain Lake had a population of 640.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 737 to 640 (-13%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Iron Mountain Lake. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Iron Mountain Lake.
Between 632 and 737 people in every census since 1990.
4 censuses, 1990–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Iron Mountain Lake’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Iron Mountain Lake itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
