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Junction City, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Junction City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31812. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2024 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Junction City within Talbot County

Population over time

2 figures

Junction City fell from 177 to 140 between 2010 and 2024. 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
2010177
2024140-37 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

246 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Junction City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,412 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 41 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
Debris and open burning118
Railroad operations and maintenance42
Arson/incendiarism41
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3

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 2018Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019TALBOT002
8 September 2016Debris and open burning9.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-006
29 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TAYLOR-011
27 September 2011Debris and open burning4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TAYLOR-013
27 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TAYLOR-009
27 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TAYLOR-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talbot County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Junction City: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Georgia Silica DivSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Junction City MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Junction City Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lone Star MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Talbot 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
Paschal (historical)0.7 miles8
Brownsand2.3 miles8
Baldwinville3.3 miles8
Geneva5.1 miles15
Po Biddy Crossroads6.0 miles8
Centerville6.3 miles8
Talbotton6.6 miles16
Poplar Crossroads7.7 miles8

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 Q604154The 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 316309. 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.