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Junction City, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Northwest Trinity census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96048. It stands on Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle. 658 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,909 feet above sea level.

Junction City within Trinity County

Then and now

1909 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Junction City, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Junction City, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Junction City fell from 680 to 658 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010680
2020658-22 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Junction City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,426 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Natural27
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony13
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Other causes2
Firearms and explosives use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Natural1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 36
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestLIME
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitJUNCTION
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestHELENA
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestPACKER
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNorthern California DistrictSHU DUTCH
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitDUTCH 3
27 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitSLATTERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of Junction City: 37 past producers, 19 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dutch CreekLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Gifford MineGold, Lead, ArsenicPast ProducerGalena, Gold
Placer Dev. Co.Gold, Osmium, SilverPast Producer
Sourdough GroupGold, Platinum, SilverPast Producer
Valdor DredgeGold, Platinum, Iridium, OsmiumProducer1916
La Grange PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
La Grange TailingsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
LorenzeCopperOccurrence
LorenzeCopperOccurrence
Bergin PlacerGold, PlatinumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junction City in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2019Heavy RainJunction City-Highway 299 had one way traffic control in effect due to a rock slide occurring across the highway.
July 2017HailJunction City-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodJunction City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trinity County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Helena4.8 miles20
Weaverville5.9 miles26
Douglas City8.0 miles26
Dedrick9.0 miles20
Globe Mill10.5 miles21
Big Bar10.7 miles20
Bucktail11.0 miles27
Trinity Alps12.2 miles26

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Junction CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6646063The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658873. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.