BlockBefore

Menomonie Junction, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Menomonie City. It lies in ZIP code area 54751. The Survey maps it on the Menomonie North quadrangle.

Menomonie Junction within Dunn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Menomonie Junction between 2007 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1

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
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1745
1 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1112
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources909
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources931
13 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1151
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources946
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources939

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dunn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Menomonie Junction: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. 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
Menomonie MineSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Cedar Falls Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dunn Cnty Hwy Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Menomin Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lake Menomin Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Menomonie Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Menomonie Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Menomonie Junction Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit 57Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dunn 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
North Menomonie1.2 miles12
Cedar Falls2.6 miles12
Menomonie2.7 miles12
Rusk4.8 miles12
Irvington5.6 miles13
Tainter Lake6.6 miles12
Knapp8.5 miles11
Norton8.5 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122539965The 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 1569351. 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.