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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1936 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:24000
- 1940 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Paducah East quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Paducah East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Paducah East quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Jackson precinct. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
4,381 words on this townshipHistory 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 2008Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SHULT |
| 26 August 2012 | Natural | 1.3 acres | Shawnee National Forest | MEDLEY |
| 26 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HINUS |
| 25 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | HOHMAN |
| 2 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | UNIONVILLE |
| 1 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MEDLEY |
| 26 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | R OWENS |
| 5 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2419 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Mine Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Unionville | $15,000 | At Hohman Lake, trees and power lines were blown down. A johnboat sank. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Unionville | $6,000 | A 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 1996 | Flash Flood | Unionville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Unionville | $3,000 | Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. A trained spotter estimated winds gusted from 60 to 70 mph. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Unionville | $3,000 | Two power lines were blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Unionville | $1,000 | A large portion of a tree was snapped off near Unionville. |
| October 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Unionville | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Unionville | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Unionville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shady Grove | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Brookport | 4.4 miles | 22 | |
| Massac City | 9.2 miles | 23 | |
| Midway | 9.3 miles | 23 | |
| Metropolis | 10.0 miles | 23 | |
| Round Knob | 13.3 miles | 23 | |
| Choat | 14.8 miles | 19 | |
| Big Bay | 16.3 miles | 21 |
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 Unionville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7886867 | The 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.














