Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Crosby, MN

Crosby is a city in Crow Wing County in the Cuyuna Iron Range, adjacent to its twin city of Ironton, and part of the Brainerd micropolitan area.

Crosby was incorporated in July 1910 and was built for the sole purpose of mining; it was named for George H. Crosby, a businessman in the mining industry.

More than 106 million tons of iron ore were mined and shipped from the Cuyuna Range between its discovery in 1904 and the end of mining in 1984.

Crosby was the site of Minnesota's worst mining disaster: on February 5, 1924, a newly blasted tunnel at the Milford Mine ran too close to Foley Lake, water rushed in, and 41 miners were killed.

In the 1932 elections, Crosby voters chose Karl Emil Nygard as village council president, making Crosby the first city in the United States to have a Communist mayor.

In August 1957, Air Force Major David G. Simons launched from Crosby's 400-foot-deep Portsmouth Mine pit lake on the Project Manhigh balloon flight, climbing to nearly 102,000 feet and helping pave the way for American space exploration.

The population of Crosby was 2,360 at the 2020 census, living in 1,057 households, down from a mining-boom peak of 3,500 in 1920.

Much of Crosby lies within the roughly 5,000-acre Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area, where flooded mine pits have become clear lakes surrounded by world-class mountain bike trails.

The Cuyuna Range Museum in Crosby preserves the area's iron-mining heritage.

Students from both twin cities attend Crosby-Ironton High School, home of the Rangers.