Serving the Iron Range and northeastern Minnesota

Service Area

Taconite Assistance Area Map

The service area of Iron Range Resources is defined by Minnesota Statute 273.134 as the "Taconite Assistance Area."

The law further defines the agency's service area as "the geographic area that falls within the boundaries of a school district that contains:

(1) A municipality in which the assessed valuation of unmined iron ore on May 1, 1941, was not less than 40 percent of the assessed valuation of all real property; or

(2) A municipality in which on January 1, 1977, or the applicable assessment date, there is a taconite concentrating plant or where taconite is mined or quarried or where there is located an electric generating plant which qualifies as a taconite facility.

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The following are Independent School District (ISD) numbers included in the Taconite Assistance Area:

• 1 Aitkin
• 166 Cook County
• 182 Crosby/Ironton
• 316 Coleraine
• 318 Grand Rapids
• 319 Nashwauk/Keewatin
• 381 Lake Superior
• 695 Chisholm
• 696 Ely
• 701 Hibbing
• 706 Virginia
• 712 Mt. lron/Buhl
• 2142 St. Louis County
• 2154 Eveleth/Gilbert
• 2711 Mesabi East