Junction City, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sandoval Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62882. The Survey maps it on the Centralia West quadrangle. 527 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresJunction City grew from 482 to 527 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 482 | |
| 2020 | 527 | +45 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1935 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Centralia West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Junction City in 2010, burning about 12 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BRINKMANN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Junction City: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centralia City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Jolliff Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junction City in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | 3 hurt | Widespread wind damage across the southern half of Marion County. Numerous tree limbs, power lines and trees were blown down in Sandoval, Junction City, Centralia, Odin, Salem, Cartter and Kell. About three miles south of Odin, a large tree fell onto an occupied mobile home. Three people were in the mobile home at the time, but were able to escape with only minor injuries. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | $40,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | The Marion County Sheriff's Office reported a tree down on St. Peter Road at I-57 and a tree on State Route 61 Extension at Lincoln Road. There were other reports of trees uprooted or snapped and a roof blown off. Locations in the path of the storm were Centralia, Salem, Junction City, Sandoval, Odin, Kell, Alma, and Kinmundy. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | Thunderstorm winds blew a large limb down from a tree in Junction City. At the time, Junction City was underneath the core of the passing thunderstorm. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | A line of storms moved through Marion County. The most significant damage was across the southern half of the county. Numerous trees, tree limbs, power lines and a few power poles were blown down in Centralia, Odin and Salem. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | Thunderstorm winds uprooted one large tree and caused minor damage to a nearby home. Also, further northeast a lean-to was destroyed with the debris thrown into a nearby field, power lines and a pickup truck. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Junction City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central City | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Sandoval | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Centralia | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Odin | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Fairman | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hubbard Woods | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Selmaville | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Walnut Hill | 8.4 miles | 9 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2262332 | The 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 411279. 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.





