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Union Springs, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Union Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36089. The Survey maps it on the Union Springs quadrangle. 3,358 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Union Springs within Bullock County

On record in Union Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Union Springs fell from 3,980 to 3,358 between 2010 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
20103,980
20203,358-622 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Mrs. Hugh Foster House, 201 Kennon Street, Union Springs, Bullock County, AL
Mrs. Hugh Foster House, 201 Kennon Street, Union Springs, Bullock County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Union Springs between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,127 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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 burning37
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3

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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2019Debris and open burning148 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190914-16
10 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Springs in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1995Thunderstorm WindUnion Springs$2,000Two trees were reported blown down in the Union Springs area.

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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
Sedgefield2.8 miles8
Stavo2.8 miles8
Chunnenuggee3.9 miles8
Tito4.5 miles8
Sardis4.6 miles8
Peachburg5.0 miles9
Aberfoil5.3 miles8
Thompson6.1 miles9

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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79771The 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 128349. 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.