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Junction City, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Junction City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97448. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle. 6,787 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 325 feet above sea level.

Junction City within Lane 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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Junction City grew from 4,721 to 6,787 between 2000 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
20004,721
20105,392+671 (+14%)
20206,787+1,395 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Junction City between 2003 and 2018, burning about 8 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 use6
Debris and open burning3
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
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictWHEEL-HARROW
24 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictHIGH PASS ESCAPE
2 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictCORY ROAD FIRE
14 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFERGUSON ROAD
9 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBROWNING CREEK
26 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFERGUSON ROAD
23 July 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictSTEWART POND 072313
29 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCORY ROAD #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Junction City: 20 past producers, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Conser QuarryStonePast Producer
Conser QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junction City in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Thunderstorm WindJunction City$5,000A county official reported that a 18 to 24 inch diameter tree was snapped by thunderstorm winds near Junction City, and blocked Love Lake Road near milepost 1.75. The Oregon Department of Transportation reported another tree was downed along the Territorial Highway near milepost 5.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Lancaster2.4 miles16
Cheshire4.7 miles17
Starrs Point (historical)5.9 miles19
Franklin6.6 miles17
Alvadore7.1 miles17
Irving7.6 miles19
Fir Grove7.8 miles19
Goldson8.2 miles17

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 Q2793345The 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 1166668. 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.