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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.

Junction City within Portage County

Population over time

2 figures

Junction 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.

YearPeople Change
2010439
2020420-19 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

112 since 1992

Regional 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 use43
Debris and open burning27
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAY BALE 2
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCLOVER CORNER FIRE
11 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON DITCH FIRE
18 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010Flash FloodJunction City$700,000Heavy 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 2024HailJunction City-Quarter size hail fell in Dancy. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJunction 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 2019Thunderstorm WindJunction City-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees at Lake Dubay Park, near Dancy.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJunction City-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust that was estimated at 65 mph as they passed through Dancy.
September 2015Heavy RainJunction City-A total of 5.10 inches of rain fell near Junction City from the evening of September 6th into late night hours.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJunction City-Thunderstorm winds downed trees as the storms passed through Junction City.
September 2012HailJunction City-Thunderstorms produced penny size hail southwest of Junction City.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindJunction City-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Junction City.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindJunction City-Thunderstorms downed trees in the Junction City area.
September 2010FloodJunction 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 2006HailJunction City-no account filed
May 2004LightningJunction City-no account filed
September 2002HailJunction City-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindJunction City-no account filed
July 1997HailJunction City-no account filed

Every storm 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
Mill Creek Community5.9 miles7
Rocky Run7.5 miles7
Casimir8.6 miles9
Stevens Point11.2 miles9
Meehan12.4 miles7
Park Ridge12.7 miles9
Whiting12.9 miles7
Torun13.8 miles9

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2184986The 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.