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Junction, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Circleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84740. It stands on East Fork Sevier River. The Survey maps it on the Junction quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,008 feet above sea level.

Junction within Piute County

On record in Junction

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Junction grew from 191 to 212 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
2010191
2020212+21 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Junction between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
18 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral AreaJUNCTION
10 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestCITY CREEK
30 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral AreaKINGSTON
1 August 1996Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestSAVAGE
22 July 2012Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeOUTLAW
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCIRCLEVILLE BRIDGE
21 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestCITY CREEK NORTH
28 June 2004Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestBELLY ACHE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Piute County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Junction: 14 past producers, 8 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Manganese, Uranium. 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
Junkyard Clay DepositKaolinPast Producer
Junkyard Clogs DepositKaolinOccurrenceReplacement
Kingston Manganese OccuranceManganesePast Producer
Kingston Manganese OccurrenceManganeseOccurrenceVein
Uranium BluffsUraniumPast Producer
Uranium Bluffs #1UraniumOccurrence1954
Graveyard Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Graveyard Gravel ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSurface
Section 16 Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Section 16 Gravel ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSurface

Every working recorded in Piute County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junction in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindJunction-The Junction South mesonet station recorded initial peak wind gusts of 66 mph at 5:40 pm MST and 5:50 pm MST, and an additional strong gust of 65 mph at 6:00 pm MST. These winds were the result of thunderstorm outflow, with the thunderstorm also producing 0.27 inches of rain in 10 minutes at the mesonet site.

Every storm recorded in Piute 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
Kingston2.6 miles16
Circleville5.3 miles14
Alunite9.9 miles20
Thompsonville12.4 miles20
Angle12.9 miles17
Bullion Falls13.4 miles19
Marysvale14.6 miles20
Hoovers18.5 miles19

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 JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q129952The 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 1442250. 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.