Junction City, Wisconsin
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Junction City Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54443. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle. 420 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJunction City fell from 439 to 420 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 | 439 | |
| 2020 | 420 | -19 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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
- 1956 USGS Milladore quadrangle1:48000
- 1970 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
112 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Junction City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 446 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HAY BALE 2 |
| 6 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 July 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | CLOVER CORNER FIRE |
| 11 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | CARSON DITCH FIRE |
| 18 June 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HOLLAND FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junction City in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Junction City | $700,000 | Heavy rain fell across Portage County, causing rivers and streams to overflow their banks, washing out roads and damaging homes and businesses. Much of the county had in excess of 4 inches of rain. The highest recorded total was 5.65 inches at Stevens Point. County crews sandbagged several roads in the northwest part of the county. The flooding caused minor damage to 36 homes and 2 businesses and major damage to 1 home. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Junction City | - | Quarter size hail fell in Dancy. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and a garage door on the north side of Junction City. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees at Lake Dubay Park, near Dancy. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | Thunderstorms produced a wind gust that was estimated at 65 mph as they passed through Dancy. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Junction City | - | A total of 5.10 inches of rain fell near Junction City from the evening of September 6th into late night hours. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees as the storms passed through Junction City. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Junction City | - | Thunderstorms produced penny size hail southwest of Junction City. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Junction City. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | Thunderstorms downed trees in the Junction City area. |
| September 2010 | Flood | Junction City | - | Flooding from heavy rainfall continued in Portage County and there was also some flooding along the Wisconsin River that ended by early on the 25th. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Junction City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Lightning | Junction City | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Junction City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junction City | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Junction City | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Creek Community | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Rocky Run | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Casimir | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Stevens Point | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Meehan | 12.4 miles | 7 | |
| Park Ridge | 12.7 miles | 9 | |
| Whiting | 12.9 miles | 7 | |
| Torun | 13.8 miles | 9 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2184986 | 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 1567317. 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.
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.



