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Uniontown, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72955. The Survey maps it on the Uniontown quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Uniontown within Crawford County

On record in Uniontown

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Uniontown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,074 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 86 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/incendiarism86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsSHILOH RD.
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsSHILOH
22 September 2005Debris and open burning30 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30551
20 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30523
20 September 2004Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30524
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uniontown in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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 2017Tornado (EF1)Uniontown$30,000This is the second segment of a two segment tornado. In Crawford County, this tornado destroyed the roof of a mobile home, damaged outbuildings, and uprooted trees near the state line. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted as it moved across Highway 59 and Arkansas 220, finally dissipating after crossing White Water Road, east-southeast of Natural Dam. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
March 2018HailUniontown$20,000Large hail up to golfball size covered the ground several inches deep.
January 2013Tornado (EF2)Uniontown$20,000This is the second of two segments of this tornado. The tornado moved into Crawford County, Arkansas, tearing a path through the woods of more than 1/3 of a mile wide. Numerous hardwood and softwood trees were snapped or uprooted. The most pronounced tree damage was on Rainwater Road northwest of Uniontown. Power poles were snapped and a home had minor damage. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 115 to 125 mph.
March 2018HailUniontown$15,000no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindUniontown$5,000Barns were damaged by thunderstorm winds.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindUniontown$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged trees and fences.
March 2012Tornado (EF1)Uniontown$2,000A tornado snapped or uprooted a number of softwood trees and several hardwood trees. It also damaged the roof of a mobile home. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was 95 to 105 mph.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindUniontown-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindUniontown-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindUniontown-Thundestorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few trees.
October 1995HailUniontown-A severe thunderstorm in Crawford County produced dime-size hail at Uniontown and eight miles north of Mountainburg.
March 2018HailUniontown-no account filed
April 2014HailUniontown-no account filed
May 2008HailUniontown-no account filed
April 2004HailUniontown-no account filed
March 1999HailUniontown-no account filed
April 1998HailUniontown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Barcelona2.6 miles16
Cedarville4.2 miles17
Dripping Springs4.3 miles16
Natural Dam5.1 miles16
Figure Five6.7 miles17
Hobbtown7.5 miles17
Rena8.1 miles28
Davidson8.2 miles16

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 UniontownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7886835The 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 78629. 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.