Union, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Locust Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30252. The Survey maps it on the Worthville quadrangle.

Union within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Worthville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Union between 1992 and 2020, burning about 706 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 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 burning	103
Arson/incendiarism	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2

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
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-BUTTS-001
19 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woodstown (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Peeksville	2.8 miles	10
Leadmore	3.2 miles	11
Ola	3.4 miles	10
Island Shoals (historical)	3.7 miles	11
Unity Grove	5.4 miles	10
Locust Grove	8.2 miles	10
Julia	8.6 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672003. 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.