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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.

Junction City within Madison County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Junction 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.

YearPeople Change
2010327
2020283-44 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 17 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

57 since 1992

Regional 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177322-06205-07202018-1628
18 June 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 June 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation138072-06205-06172016-1758
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation124053-06205-05042015-1606
9 April 2020Debris and open burning3.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200543-06205-04092020-1308

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 86 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buckeye MineCobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, NickelPast Producer
Fox MineCobalt, Lead, Copper, NickelPast ProducerGalena
Fredericktown DepositsLead, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, CobaltPast ProducerREPLACEMENT, DISSEMINATED SULFIDES.
Madison MineLead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, Iron, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite
Madison MineCobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1847, 1944
Manganese DepositsManganeseOccurrence
Mine La MotteLead, Silver, Copper, Cobalt, Zinc, NickelPast Producer1720
Mine La Motte GroupCopper, Lead, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1720, 1827
Old Copper MinesLead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Malachite
SchulteCopper, Lead, CobaltPast ProducerGalena

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Fredericktown1.2 miles17
Catherine Place1.9 miles17
Cobalt Village2.2 miles17
Mine La Motte2.7 miles17
Millcreek3.6 miles17
Oak Grove5.7 miles19
Cherokee Pass6.1 miles20
Cornwall6.3 miles20

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 Q2467999The 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.