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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.

Amherst Junction within Portage County

Population over time

2 figures

Amherst 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.

YearPeople Change
2010377
2020383+6 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

135 since 1992

Regional 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 burning37
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Natural2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 September 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWARD ROAD FIRE
12 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY RR FIRE #1
9 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOUNTAIN GROVE HOLDOVER
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTOCKTON RR FIRE #9
7 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPAVELSKI BALER FIRE
5 August 2012Smoking2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 10 WESTBOUND FIRE
3 August 2012Debris and open burning20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY SPUR FIRE
28 August 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage 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
Lake Emily (historical)1.3 miles6
Nelsonville1.8 miles6
Amherst1.9 miles6
New Hope3.5 miles7
Fancher3.9 miles6
Garfield6.5 miles7
Custer6.7 miles7
Arnott7.2 miles6

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 JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2419753The 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.