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Union, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Mantua-West Greene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35462. The Survey maps it on the Union quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Union within Greene County

Population over time

3 figures

Union fell from 227 to 180 between 2000 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
2000227
2010237+10 (+4%)
2020180-57 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Union between 1994 and 2019, burning about 370 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
30 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Other causesunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 181, AL
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism21 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Smoking4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150901-001
8 August 2008Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1998HailUnion$20,000Golf ball size hail was reported in Union, damaging a few cars.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion$15,000Strong winds caused minor damage to several hotels and stores at Exit 45 along Interstate 20.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindUnion$7,000A tree fell onto a house along County Road 170.
March 1996HailUnion$5,000no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindUnion$5,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindUnion$2,000Trees were knocked down 3 miles north of Union.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion$500A tree was blown down onto CR-191, in the Union community.
May 2025HailUnion-Quarter-size hail covered the ground near Union.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindUnion-Several trees uprooted along County Road 191.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindUnion-Numerous trees uprooted in city of Union.
March 2007HailUnion-Reported in the Jena Community.
October 2007Funnel CloudUnion-no account filed
April 2006HailUnion-no account filed
September 2005Tornado (F0)Union-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Snoddy4.1 miles10
Mantua4.6 miles10
Morrows Grove6.2 miles10
Clinton6.6 miles14
Knoxville6.6 miles14
Lewiston6.7 miles11
Pleasant Ridge9.1 miles11
West Greene10.1 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.

Wikipedia article on UnionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67077The 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 128262. 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.