Valley Junction, Iowa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Valley Junction-West Des Moines City Hall and Engine Houselisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away
• I.O.O.F. (International Order of Odd Fellows) Valley Junction Lodge Hall No. 604listed 2017 · 0.2 miles away
• Valley Junction Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2017 · 0.3 miles away
• U.S. Post Officelisted 1974 · 0.4 miles away
• Valley Auto Co.-Morgan Auto Co. Garagelisted 2021 · 0.3 miles away

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.

• 1905 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Des Moines SW quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Valley Junction between 2006 and 2011, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West Des Moines
• Ashawa
• Millman
• Campbell
• Clive
• Commerce

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Valley Junction: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Polk County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464214. 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.