The Cedar City, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Iron County.

Evidence of Fremont culture habitation ranging from 750 to 1250 AD exists in present Iron County.

Also, in 1861, the federal government created the Colorado Territory, which administratively removed Iron County areas east of 109 degrees longitude.

Also, in 1862, the federal government created the Nevada Territory, which administratively removed Iron County areas west of 114 degrees longitude.

The final adjustment was made in 1892; the county borders have remained in their current arrangement.

The Iron County terrain is a study in contrast to its arid western reaches of the Escalante Desert and Great Basin ranges to the meadows and forests of the High Plateau on the east.

The Markagunt Plateau is creased by the colorful formations of Cedar Breaks National Monument.

Indeed, in no national election since the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson landslide has the county given any Democratic presidential candidate 25 percent of its ballots.