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.
Population over time
3 figuresUnion 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 227 | |
| 2010 | 237 | +10 (+4%) |
| 2020 | 180 | -57 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1927 USGS Eutaw quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Eutaw quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Union quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
47 since 1994Regional 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/incendiarism | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Other causes | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | COUNTY ROAD 181, AL |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 21 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1999 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150901-001 |
| 8 August 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Hail | Union | $20,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported in Union, damaging a few cars. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $15,000 | Strong winds caused minor damage to several hotels and stores at Exit 45 along Interstate 20. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $7,000 | A tree fell onto a house along County Road 170. |
| March 1996 | Hail | Union | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $2,000 | Trees were knocked down 3 miles north of Union. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $500 | A tree was blown down onto CR-191, in the Union community. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Union | - | Quarter-size hail covered the ground near Union. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | - | Several trees uprooted along County Road 191. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | - | Numerous trees uprooted in city of Union. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Union | - | Reported in the Jena Community. |
| October 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Union | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snoddy | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Mantua | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Morrows Grove | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Clinton | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Knoxville | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Lewiston | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant Ridge | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| West Greene | 10.1 miles | 7 |
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 Union | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67077 | 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 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.







