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Union, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lapile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71747. The Survey maps it on the Strong quadrangle.

Union within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

64 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Union between 1997 and 2019, burning about 736 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionUNI15447500
20 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2025HailNew Union-Golfball size hail fell about 6 miles east of Strong.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindUnion-Several trees were blown down on Oakland Road just south of Strong.
September 2008Tornado (EF0)New Union-An EF0 tornado touched down in Union County, Arkansas east of Strong, Arkansas along North Road. Several large trees were snapped or uprooted in the swamp on the east side of the road.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Victoria0.2 miles16
Strong2.2 miles16
Gardner3.2 miles16
Lapile3.7 miles16
Aurelle4.2 miles16
Old Lapile4.7 miles18
Sandy Bend5.4 miles16
Bolding5.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58785. 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.