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Sono Junction, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hudson town. It lies in ZIP code area 54016. The Survey maps it on the Northline quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Sono Junction within St. Croix County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sono Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 June 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900181
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900149
6 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020157
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources46
27 May 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2005Debris and open burning260 acresSt. Croix Wetland Management DistrictGAME UNLIMITED
23 April 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDAY AFTER FIRE
20 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900126

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Croix County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Sono Junction: 11 past producers, 7 occurrences, 4 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
Beyer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Boundary Road Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Bryan Smith Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Frances Marson Dolomite Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Francis Marson Dolomite Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Francis Marson Dolomite Quarry #3Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mayer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Red Brick Road Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Tower Road Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Badlands Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in St. Croix 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
Burkhardt Station1.9 miles14
Northline1.9 miles12
Burkhardt2.3 miles14
North Hudson4.1 miles18
Hudson4.3 miles18
Glover5.3 miles12
Roberts6.5 miles12
Boardman6.7 miles14

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 Sono JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7562140The 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 1581725. 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.