Village of Junction City, Portage County, Wisconsin: Place Profile

No official Village of Junction City website was found; junctioncitywi.com is a volunteer community site that says it is not the village's official site.

Junction City is governed by a village board under Wisconsin's village form; the board's current members and meeting schedule were not found in a source read this session.

No list of major employers with headcounts in the Village of Junction City was found in a source read this session.

No newspaper based in Junction City was found; the Stevens Point Gazette is the Portage County paper on Wausau Wire's roster.

No public library outlet located in the village was found.

No hospital or clinic is located in the village; the community site points to providers 15 to 40 minutes away.

The municipality is the Village of Junction City, an incorporated village in Portage County, Wisconsin (Census place GEOID 5538650).

A Junction City mailing address does not mean the village: the clerks of the Towns of Carson and Eau Pleine in Portage County also use Junction City mailing addresses.

The Village of Junction City covers 1.508 square miles of land and 0.008 square miles of water.

The village's Census internal point is near 44.594933, -89.769656.

The village clerk's mailing address uses ZIP code 54443.

A community website describes Junction City as centrally located between Stevens Point/Plover, Wisconsin Rapids, Marshfield, Mosinee and Wausau, near US Highway 10 and State Highway 34 and about 5 miles from I-39.

The 2020 Census counted 420 residents in the Village of Junction City.

The Wisconsin DOA estimates the village's population at 444 as of January 1, 2025, above the 2020 count.

The Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimate for Junction City village is 418 on July 1, 2024 (2020 estimates base 421).

The ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimate of the village's population is 301 (+/-67).

The ACS 2019-2023 median age in the village is 35.6 years (+/-6.3).

The ACS 2019-2023 median household income in the village is $62,500 (+/-$13,434).

The ACS 2019-2023 median value of owner-occupied homes in the village is $122,400 (+/-$10,187).

The village clerk of record is Betty Bruski Mallek, phone 715-457-2353, with mail to PO Box 93, Junction City, WI 54443-0093.

A new Village Hall is at 972 Main Street, in the former US Bank building; the village office phone given there is 715-457-6464.

The village provides water and sewer service, weekly garbage pickup, a brush and leaf site at the south end of Central Avenue, and dog licenses through the treasurer.

The village lies inside the Stevens Point Area Public School District (NCES 5514490), which enrolled 6,911 students in 2024-2025.

Kennedy Elementary, a PK-6 Stevens Point district school at 616 W 2nd Street in Junction City, enrolled 170 students in 2024-2025.

Trucking is a visible local industry: H.J. Martens Trucking and Wayne Transports are among businesses listed in or near the village, alongside feed, construction, storage and event-venue firms and several bars and a diner.

Pamaron Meadows, a subdivision of duplexes and single-family homes at the east end of the village behind Wayne Transport, is described as mostly completed.

The Rudolph Fire Department lists the Village of Junction City within its protection area.

Junction City has a post office, linked from the community site's services page.

Churches listed for Junction City include St. Paul's Lutheran Church (LCMS), St. Michael's Catholic Church, and New Hope Community Church, which runs a food pantry.

The Junction City Lions Club meets the first and third Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Village Park Lodge, 224 Case Avenue.

The village park has ball diamonds, a walking trail, tennis courts, playground equipment, a pet exercise area, and two rentable pavilions.

Nearby recreation named by the community site includes DuBay County Park, Lake Du Bay, the Big Eau Pleine Reservoir, and the George W. Mead Wildlife Area.

The Junction City Community Picnic and Parade is held the second weekend of July, with softball and cornhole tournaments, fireworks, and a Sunday parade on Main Street; the 2026 picnic ran July 10 to 12.

Other annual events include a Lions Fisheree in January, the Junction City Ice Company's ice cutting in February, a village-wide garage sale in June, and a cancer fundraising candlelight walk in the village park in September.

Wikipedia says the community grew where the Wisconsin Central Railroad (1872) and the Wisconsin Valley Railroad (1874) crossed, and a post office named Junction opened in 1874.

Junction City incorporated as a village in 1911, according to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia says US Highway 10 once ran on Main Street and was rerouted north of the village around 2012.