Valley Junction, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Byron town. It lies in ZIP code area 54660. It stands on Dead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wyeville quadrangle. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Valley Junction within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Wyeville quadrangle1:48000
1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Wyeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Valley Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Recreation and ceremony	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Natural	2

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
9 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BLUE WING FIRE
4 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ALL CREATURES FIRE
18 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BOOK ENDS
14 September 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WANG FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wyeville	2.3 miles	11
Shennington	5.4 miles	10
North Tomah	6.2 miles	14
Norway Ridge	6.6 miles	10
Oakdale	6.7 miles	13
Tomah	7.1 miles	13
Warrens	7.1 miles	10
Kirby	7.2 miles	14

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 Valley Junction	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7912119	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 1576019. 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.