Map of Chisholm city, Minnesota

Chisholm is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,976 at the 2010 census. The city has been called “The Heart of the Iron Range” due to its location in the middle of the Mesabi Iron Range.

Chisholm city overview:
Name:	Chisholm city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Minnesota
County:	St. Louis County
Incorporated:	July 23, 1901
Elevation:	1,539 ft (469 m)
Total Area:	4.73 sq mi (12.24 km²)
Land Area:	4.47 sq mi (11.57 km²)
Water Area:	0.26 sq mi (0.67 km²)
Total Population:	4,775
Population Density:	1,068.47/sq mi (412.56/km²)
ZIP code:	55719
Area code:	218
FIPS code:	2711386
GNISfeature ID:	0660998

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History

The city was named for its founder, Archibald Mark Chisholm (1862–1933), a mining man and investor from Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada. Chisholm was incorporated in 1901. A post office called Chisholm has been in operation since 1901. With a railroad line to Duluth and plenty of mining work available in and near town, Chisholm’s population grew rapidly, and by 1908 it had more than 6,000 people and 500 buildings. On September 5, 1908, a fast-moving forest fire obliterated the town due to dry conditions and the wooden construction of nearly all the town’s buildings. Many people escaped by going into the lake. No one died in the fire. Afterward, building codes were enhanced, and by the next summer more than 70 fireproof buildings had been erected.

Chisholm became a city in 1934. Muralist Elizabeth Carney Pope completed a WPA mural, Discovery of Ore, in the Chisholm post office in 1941.

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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.74 square miles (12.28 km); 4.48 square miles (11.60 km) is land and 0.26 square miles (0.67 km) is water.

Chisholm is in the center of the Mesabi Iron Range, one of the four iron ranges in Minnesota’s Arrowhead Region.

U.S. Highway 169 and State Highway 73 (MN 73) are two of Chisholm’s main routes.