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Unionville, Illinois

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Jackson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62910. It stands on Crenshaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Paducah East quadrangle. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Unionville within Massac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 24 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Jackson precinct. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Massac County, Illinois; with Life Sketches and Portraits, published 1900 - Jackson Precinct

Capt. And Mrs. T.J, Moseley

He was mustered into the service at Oamp Butler, aad soon after was sent to Cairo, 111., under command of General John A. McClernand. He participated in the battles of Belmont, Missouri; Paducah, Ky.; Port Henry, Tenn.; Fort Donaldson and Pittsburg Ijanding. Soon after the last named battle he was attacked with typhoid fever and was sent to the hospital in a dying condition, when all trace of him was lost.

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In the county-history sources

4,381 words on this township

History of Massac County, Illinois; with Life Sketches and Portraits, published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Precinct. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Twenty-six years ago he came almost direct to Massac county and farmed for about six years. Having a business turn of mind he opened a general store in Unionville, Massac county, twenty years ago and has continued merchandising for a fifth of a century in the same bulding.

Passage source: History of Massac County, Illinois; with Life Sketches and Portraits, published 1900.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jackson Precinct - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Unionville between 2008 and 2017, burning about 55 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSHULT
26 August 2012Natural1.3 acresShawnee National ForestMEDLEY
26 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHINUS
25 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestHOHMAN
2 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNIONVILLE
1 July 2012Natural2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMEDLEY
26 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesR OWENS
5 April 2017Debris and open burning25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2419

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Massac County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Unionville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Federal Mine DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Massac County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Unionville in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindUnionville$15,000At Hohman Lake, trees and power lines were blown down. A johnboat sank.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindUnionville$6,000A downburst with peak winds estimated near 75 MPH struck the central and western portion of Kinneman Lake, also known as Long Lake. This lake is in the Ohio River bottomlands of extreme southeast Massac County. Several large trees were blown down. Camping trailers were moved. The damage was caused by the same thunderstorm that moved through Paducah, Kentucky with winds up to 75 MPH.
November 1996Flash FloodUnionville$5,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindUnionville$3,000Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. A trained spotter estimated winds gusted from 60 to 70 mph.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindUnionville$3,000Two power lines were blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindUnionville$1,000A large portion of a tree was snapped off near Unionville.
October 2004Funnel CloudUnionville-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindUnionville-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindUnionville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Massac 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
Shady Grove1.0 miles24
Brookport4.4 miles22
Massac City9.2 miles23
Midway9.3 miles23
Metropolis10.0 miles23
Round Knob13.3 miles23
Choat14.8 miles19
Big Bay16.3 miles21

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 UnionvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7886867The 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 420146. 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.

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.