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Pioneer Junction, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Libby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59923. It stands on Prospect Creek. The Survey maps it on the Little Hoodoo Mountain quadrangle. 902 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,438 feet above sea level.

Pioneer Junction within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Pioneer Junction fell from 959 to 902 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
2010959
2020902-57 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Pioneer Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 10 were 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
Natural71
Recreation and ceremony60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Fireworks2

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
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestLIBBY SUPERFUND 9
6 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestLIBBY SUPERFUND 8
5 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresKootenai National ForestREMPS
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKootenai National Forestnot named
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestOBSIDIAN FLAT
30 September 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresKootenai National ForestMCMILLIAN
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKootenai National ForestGOLF COURSE
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestWEST SWEDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Pioneer Junction: 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Copper, Tungsten, Silver. 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
Copper MountainCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Copper-Silver-Iron OccurrenceCopper, Gold, Iron, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Denver No. 1 & 2Lead, Tungsten, SilverUnknown
Fisher River QuarryGold, SilverPast Producer
Glacier Silver-LeadZinc, Silver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Granite Concrete Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Heintz R A ConstructionStone, DimensionPast Producer
Herbert GroupGold, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Iron OccurrenceIron, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
D. & W. GroupLeadProspect

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
White Haven0.6 miles14
Libby4.1 miles14
Ripley4.9 miles16
Green Acres5.0 miles14
Jennings9.4 miles15
Scotchville (historical)11.4 miles15
Kootenai Falls16.0 miles14
Warland (historical)16.7 miles9

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 Pioneer JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6076509The 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 788934. 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.