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Union City, California

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Fremont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94587. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle. 70,143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Union City within Alameda County

Then and now

1899 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Union City, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Union City, surveyed 1899

Population over time

2 figures

Union City grew from 69,516 to 70,143 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
201069,516
202070,143+627 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 surveys from 37 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

315 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Union City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,516 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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/undetermined226
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony3

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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unit84
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara UnitWINERY
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Clara UnitPIONEER
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSanta Clara Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Union City: 19 producers, 18 past producers, 5 occurrences. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
InterpaceFire Clay (Refractory), Kaolin, SilicaProducer
Morton Salt Co.HaliteProducer
Oliver SaltSaltProducer
Taylor and PitcherManganese, Salt, SilicaPast Producer
Bellini QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dumbarton MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
East Bay Excavation CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Niles QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Durham PitStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Alameda 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
Pabrico1.1 miles37
Carpenter1.8 miles37
Eberly2.1 miles26
Niles District2.5 miles26
Hall Station2.5 miles37
Halvern2.7 miles36
Shinn2.8 miles26
Niles Junction2.9 miles26

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q846402The 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 236787. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.