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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Iron Mountain, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Iron Mountain and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
    • To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for Iron Mountain:
    • 37.617477, -113.390789
    • Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Iron Mountain
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Iron County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • eBird sighting report for Iron County
    • Since Iron Mountain is near Washington County, we have provided a link to its eBird sighting report:
    • eBird sighting report for Washington County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Iron Mountain ...

We found nine communities that share the name Iron Mountain.

Within Utah, the name Iron Mountain is unique.

Beyond Utah, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • San Bernardino County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Iron Mountain [San Bernardino County].
      • Shasta County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Iron Mountain [Shasta County].
    • Michigan
      • Dickinson County
      • This Iron Mountain is located in Dickinson County and lies 1,415 miles [2,277.2 km]<3> to the east northeast of the Iron Mountain that is located in Iron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dickinson County community of Iron Mountain.
    • Missouri
      • Saint Francois County
      • This Iron Mountain is located in Saint Francois County and lies 1,240 miles [1,995.6 km]<3> to the east of the Iron Mountain that is located in Iron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Francois County community of Iron Mountain.
    • Montana
      • Missoula County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Iron Mountain [Missoula County].
    • Texas
      • Rusk County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Iron Mountain [Rusk County].
    • Virginia
      • Alleghany County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Iron Mountain [Alleghany County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Dodge County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Iron Mountain [Dodge County].
    • Wyoming
      • Laramie County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Iron Mountain [Laramie County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Iron Mountain ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Desert Mound ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Desert Mound have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Mound
    • Desert Mound is located in Iron County
  • Fort Harmony ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Harmony
    • Fort Harmony is located in Washington County
  • Hamiltons Fort
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamiltons Fort
    • Hamiltons Fort is located in Iron County
    • Former names for Hamiltons Fort:
    • Fort Hamblin
    • Fort Sidon
    • Fort Walker
    • Hambleton
    • Hamblin
    • Shirts Creek
    • Sidon
    • Hamiltons Fort has also been known as:
    • Hamilton Fort
    • Hamilton
  • Iron Springs
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iron Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Springs
    • Iron Springs is located in Iron County
  • Little Pinto ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Little Pinto. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Pinto
    • Little Pinto is located in Iron County
    • Little Pinto has also been known as:
    • Page Ranch
  • Mountain Meadows ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Meadows
    • Mountain Meadows is located in Washington County
  • New Harmony
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Old Irontown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Irontown
    • Old Irontown is located in Iron County
    • Old Irontown has also been known as:
    • Iron City
    • Irontown

How Far From Iron Mountain to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Iron Mountain to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Iron Mountain and extending to:

  • Parowan, which is the Seat of Iron County, lies 34 miles [54.7 km]<3> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Iron Mountain to Parowan, with an average speed<7> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 231 miles [371.8 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 14 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,960 miles [3,154.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take three full days, a buggy would take 77 days and walking would take 112 days.
  • The shortest distance<8> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,228 miles [11,632.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,996 miles [12,868.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<10>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,967 miles [9,603 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<11>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Iron Mountain. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Iron County: www.ironnet.org/

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Iron Mountain could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Iron Mountain, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Iron Mountain) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Iron Mountain. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6175, Longitude: -113.3908       In this case, the coordinates for Iron Mountain have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<7>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<8>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Iron Mountain to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 332.773 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 332.228 degrees.
<11>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 322.807 degrees.




 

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