Amherst Junction, Wisconsin
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Amherst Junction Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54407. The Survey maps it on the Amherst quadrangle. 383 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAmherst Junction grew from 377 to 383 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 | 377 | |
| 2020 | 383 | +6 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Amherst quadrangle1:48000
- 1969 USGS Amherst quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
135 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Amherst Junction between 1992 and 2019, burning about 233 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WARD ROAD FIRE |
| 12 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SMOKEY RR FIRE #1 |
| 9 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FOUNTAIN GROVE HOLDOVER |
| 8 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | STOCKTON RR FIRE #9 |
| 7 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.3 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PAVELSKI BALER FIRE |
| 5 August 2012 | Smoking | 2.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 10 WESTBOUND FIRE |
| 3 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SMOKEY SPUR FIRE |
| 28 August 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Emily (historical) | 1.3 miles | 6 | |
| Nelsonville | 1.8 miles | 6 | |
| Amherst | 1.9 miles | 6 | |
| New Hope | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Fancher | 3.9 miles | 6 | |
| Garfield | 6.5 miles | 7 | |
| Custer | 6.7 miles | 7 | |
| Arnott | 7.2 miles | 6 |
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 Amherst Junction | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2419753 | 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 1560833. 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.



