Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Chisholm, MN

Chisholm is a city in St. Louis County that calls itself "The Heart of the Iron Range" because it sits in the middle of the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region.

Chisholm was named for its founder, Archibald Mark Chisholm, a mining man and investor from Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada, and it was incorporated on July 23, 1901.

On September 5, 1908, a fast-moving forest fire obliterated nearly all of Chisholm — residents escaped by wading into the lake and nobody died — and by the next summer more than 70 fireproof buildings had been erected under tougher building codes.

Chisholm's population peaked at 9,039 in 1920 during the iron-mining boom; it counted 4,775 residents at the 2020 census.

Chisholm had 2,116 households at the 2020 census, and about 37.5 percent of them were people living alone.

Chisholm is home to the Minnesota Museum of Mining and the Minnesota Discovery Center, which together interpret the Iron Range's mining and immigration history.

Chisholm was the real-life home of Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, who played a single major league baseball game and then served as the town's doctor for 50 years — the story retold in the film Field of Dreams.

Chisholm's post office holds a 1941 Works Progress Administration mural, Discovery of Ore, painted by Elizabeth Carney Pope.

Olympic curling champion John Shuster, who skipped the U.S. team to gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, comes from Chisholm, as does 2006 Olympic curling bronze medalist Shawn Rojeski.

Scenes of the 2005 drama film North Country, about a landmark sexual-harassment case at an Iron Range mine, were filmed in Chisholm.