Iron City, Tennessee
| Iron City, Tennessee | |
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| Census-designated place | |
South Lawrence Head Start in Iron City
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 Location of Iron City, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates: 35°1′32″N 87°35′1″W / 35.02556°N 87.58361°WCoordinates: 35°1′32″N 87°35′1″W / 35.02556°N 87.58361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Tennessee |
| Counties | Lawrence, Wayne |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.9 sq mi (2.4 km2) |
| • Land | 0.9 sq mi (2.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 564 ft (172 m) |
| Population (2013) | |
| • Total | 180 |
| • Density | 401.4/sq mi (155.0/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 38463 |
| Area code(s) | 931 |
| FIPS code | 47-37360 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1289045 |
Iron City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lawrence and Wayne counties, Tennessee. The population was 328 at the 2010 census when it was a city, and estimated at 180 in 2013 as a CDP.
Iron City was incorporated as a city from 1887 to 1901, and again from 1962 until 2010, its residents voting to disincorporate in the latter year.
Iron City gets its name from an iron foundry that operated in its vicinity in the late 19th century. While iron ore was mined in southwestern Lawrence County as early as the 1830s, the industry really began to thrive in 1886, when a branch railroad line to the area was completed. Iron City incorporated the following year. At its height, Iron City supported a population of about 1,000, and included two hotels and two banks.
In 2008, the award-winning documentary film, Iron City Blues was released.Iron City Blues follows biker/bluesman Big Mike Griffin as he travels to Iron City in order to write a song about the town's unique history.
Iron City is located at 35°1′32″N 87°35′1″W / 35.02556°N 87.58361°W (35.025686, -87.583704). The community is situated in the Shoal Creek Valley, just north of the Tennessee-Alabama state line. Iron City is surrounded by rugged hills on the north, south, and west, and the by the creek on the east.
State Route 227 passes east-to-west through Iron City, connecting it to St. Joseph across the hills to the east and State Route 13 south of Collinwood to the west. State Route 242, which intersects SR 227 in Iron City, connects the community with Westpoint and Lawrenceburg to the northeast. Poplar Street/Pruitton Road connects Iron City with Lauderdale County, Alabama, to the south, becoming County Road 61 at the state line.
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