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Forest Junction, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Brillion town. It lies in ZIP code area 54110. The Survey maps it on the Hilbert quadrangle. 746 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Forest Junction within Calumet County

On record in Forest 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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Forest Junction grew from 616 to 746 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
2010616
2020746+130 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Forest Junction between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1

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
15 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2018Fireworks1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources32
18 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
5 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
18 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBU18031

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Forest Junction: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Brillion QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Soyburn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brillion PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Geiger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haese PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whittman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Winkler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calumet 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
Dundas3.2 miles9
Saint John4.4 miles9
Hilbert Junction4.7 miles9
Brillion4.9 miles9
Hilbert5.1 miles9
Sherwood6.7 miles11
Potter6.8 miles9
High Cliff (historical)8.5 miles11

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 Forest JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5469000The 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 1565134. 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.