Union, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Omaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31821. It stands on Hollman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Union quadrangle.

Union within Stewart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1949 USGS Julia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Lumpkin quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Lumpkin quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Union quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Union between 1992 and 2018, burning about 357 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	46
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
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
9 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-STEWART-005
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stewart 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
Orletta (historical)	2.7 miles	12
Blufftown (historical)	3.6 miles	12
Louvale Station	3.6 miles	12
Gillis Place	4.0 miles	12
Upper Bradley Place	4.0 miles	12
Louvale	4.3 miles	12
Charles	4.5 miles	12
Childs Place	4.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326567. 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.