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Waukon Junction, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52146. It stands on Paint Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harpers Ferry quadrangle. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

Waukon Junction within Allamakee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Waukon Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGRAPEVINE N FIRE
8 May 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2000Other causesunder an acreEffigy Mounds National MonumentBURN BARN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allamakee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Waukon Junction: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Harpers Ferry DiggingsLeadPast ProducerGalena
Quality Sand & Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brazell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
O Connel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allamakee 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
Harpers Ferry3.7 miles19
Yellow River4.5 miles20
Ion4.8 miles13
Egan5.4 miles14
Eldergrove6.2 miles19
Waterville6.9 miles14
Sixteen7.0 miles14
Thompson Corner8.1 miles18

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 Waukon JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18394636The 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 464795. 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.