Junction City, Missouri
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1989. It stands in St. Michael Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63645. It stands on Shays Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fredericktown quadrangle. 283 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.
On record in Junction City
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Fredericktown Missouri Pacific Railroad Depotlisted 2000 · 0.8 miles away- St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad Depotlisted 2005 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresJunction City fell from 327 to 283 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 | 327 | |
| 2020 | 283 | -44 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 17 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.
- 1939 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:48000
- 1947 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
57 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Junction City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 111 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 29 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177322-06205-07202018-1628 |
| 18 June 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 138072-06205-06172016-1758 |
| 4 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 124053-06205-05042015-1606 |
| 9 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 200543-06205-04092020-1308 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 86 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Junction City: 85 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye Mine | Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, Nickel | Past Producer | ||
| Fox Mine | Cobalt, Lead, Copper, Nickel | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Fredericktown Deposits | Lead, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt | Past Producer | REPLACEMENT, DISSEMINATED SULFIDES. | |
| Madison Mine | Lead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, Iron, Silver | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite | |
| Madison Mine | Cobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | 1847, 1944 | |
| Manganese Deposits | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Mine La Motte | Lead, Silver, Copper, Cobalt, Zinc, Nickel | Past Producer | 1720 | |
| Mine La Motte Group | Copper, Lead, Zinc, Cobalt, Nickel | Past Producer | 1720, 1827 | |
| Old Copper Mines | Lead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Malachite | |
| Schulte | Copper, Lead, Cobalt | Past Producer | Galena |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fredericktown | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Catherine Place | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Cobalt Village | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Mine La Motte | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Millcreek | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Oak Grove | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Cherokee Pass | 6.1 miles | 20 | |
| Cornwall | 6.3 miles | 20 |
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 Q2467999 | 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 752400. 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.














