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Chisholm is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,976 at the 2010 census. The city has been called “The Heart of the Iron Range” due to its location in the middle of the Mesabi Iron Range.

The city was named for its founder, Archibald Mark Chisholm (1862–1933), a mining man and pioneer from Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada. Chisholm was incorporated in 1901. A publicize office called Chisholm has been in operation in the past 1901. With a railroad parentage to Duluth and plenty of mining work manageable in and near town, Chisholm’s population grew rapidly, and by 1908 it had on pinnacle of 6,000 people and 500 buildings. On September 5, 1908, a fast-moving forest fire obliterated the town due to dry conditions and the wooden construction of nearly whatever the town’s buildings. Many people escaped by going into the lake. No one died in the fire. Afterward, building codes were enhanced, and by the next summer more than 70 fireproof buildings had been erected.

Chisholm became a city in 1934. Muralist Elizabeth Carney Pope completed a WPA mural, Discovery of Ore, in the Chisholm make known office in 1941.