Union, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Thalmann census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31523. The Survey maps it on the Bladen quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Union within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1918 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Union (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,263 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 27 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	89
Railroad operations and maintenance	54
Natural	39
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4

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
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Natural	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2008	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Natural	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Natural	32 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Brookman	1.9 miles	18
Deerwood	3.2 miles	19
Georgetown	3.6 miles	18
Bethel (historical)	3.7 miles	18
Hayner	4.3 miles	18
Fancy Bluff	4.9 miles	19
Glynn Camp	5.0 miles	19
Blythe Island	5.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671600. 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.