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Union County, Indiana

38 topographic sheets cover 19 settlements here, and 3 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the record

3 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Indiana within the United States
Union County within Indiana

What the record shows

  • 272 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 3 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 2 districts and 1 building.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 19 populated places in this county; 19 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

3

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Liberty Courthouse Square Historic Districtdistrict201313001018
Liberty Residential Historic Districtdistrict201313001017
Union County Courthousebuilding198787000103

Storms, 1955 to 2025

60 of 146 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 146 reports for this county, causing 2 deaths, 9 injuries and about $3,644,750 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind80
Hail27
Flash Flood22
Flood13
Tornado3
Heavy Rain1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLiberty2 killed, 6 hurt, $25,000Numerous trees downed across the county, one of which fell across a tent, injuring six campers. Also, two people were killed when a boat overturned in the storm on Brookville Lake.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLiberty3 hurt, $10,000Several trees were downed in and around Whitewater Memorial State Park. One tree fell onto a tent, resulting in 3 non-life threatening injuries.
November 1992Tornado (F2)not stated$2,500,000no account filed
March 1955Tornado (F2)not stated$250,000no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodLiberty$100,000State Route 101 was underwater near town, with several other roads in town closed by high water. The Union County Public Library and Edwards Memorial United Methodist Church both sustained basement flooding.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLiberty$65,000Large trees were reported down with one of them down on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Sheds were tipped over, a roof was peeled from a garage, a barn roof was peeled off with debris strewn for at least a half of a mile, a large grain silo was dented in, and a heavy wagon was rolled in excess of one hundred feet due to the winds.
June 2003Flash FloodWest College Corner$50,000Numerous roads were underwater in town. Several homes had water on the first floor, and the College Corner Union School sustained minor flood damage.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLiberty$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees which toppled power lines across the center of the county at Liberty. Some of the trees in Liberty also fell on some homes causing minor damage.
May 1994HailCreston$50,000no account filed
May 1994HailThayer$50,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLiberty$35,000A business on South State Route 101 received significant roof damage.
June 2019Tornado (EF1)Clifton$35,000The tornado first touched down on the 1700 block of North U.S. Route 27, where a swirl was observed in a field just to the southwest of a well-constructed, 110 ft by 105 ft metal farm storage building. Several 4 X 4`s were snapped and the building was completely destroyed. Metal debris from this building was identified over 2 miles to the northeast. Wood debris from the barn was located from south to north in a semicircle approximately two hundred yards wide. In addition, there was a convergent path of wood and metal debris off to the northeast. Along this convergent path, a significant amount of debris was deposited in a tree line approximately a half mile to the northeast.||Additional damage was observed along the 1700 block of East Mitchell Road. An eyewitness saw the tornado a half mile to the southwest, and estimated the width as around 100 feet. He also observed large pieces of metal rotating in the tornado. At his property, an ornamental iron fence was bent down at a 45 degree angle due to a combination of winds associated with the tornado and debris from the location on North U.S. Route 27. The home also suffered some damage, including glass from a storm door blown in and broken glass from four windows. A circular item around three|feet in diameter and weighing two hundred pounds was lifted up, hit the house and then deposited about a couple hundred feet in a ditch behind the house. Numerous trees and large limbs across the property were also knocked down. A few of the trees reached diameters up to two feet.||Debris was evident in the field northeast of the East Mitchell Road residence. This debris was associated with the large metal building at the first location.||Additional damage was found further northeast at a residence on County Road 200 East. Several trees were downed, with one falling on the roof of a house and causing damage. This is the last known damage that occurred from this tornado.
July 2015Flash FloodCollege Corner$25,000The west fork of Four Mile Run came out of its banks and was flowing over Brookville Pike Road. A part of the road was washed away. In addition, trees were downed due to the flash flooding and a car was trapped in the water.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindLiberty$25,000A structure on Salem Road south of US Route 27 sustained minor damage, including having its windows blown out. A roof was blown off a house east of Liberty along State Route 44. A hog barn was blown off its foundation and numerous trees were knocked down.
July 2000Flash FloodLiberty$25,000Heavy rainfall caused flooding, which washed a road out.
April 2018Flash FloodBrownsville$20,000Brownsville Road was flooded and potentially washed out.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDunlapsville$15,000Several trees were snapped and a barn sustained some roof damage. Also, a picnic table was picked up and thrown northeast of its original position. A rowboat was picked up and dropped across a field. Finally, a dock was lifted and torn out and boards were thrown across the pond up in a tree.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCountywide$10,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees, especially in Liberty.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindClifton$10,000Storms damaged a residence and a shed, and knocked down trees.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCountywide$10,000Trees downed across the county.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindLiberty$10,000no account filed
February 2017Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove$9,000Seven power poles were knocked down near the intersection of South Liberty Pike Road and East Retherford Road.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$8,000Several trees were downed across the county.
June 2008HailLiberty$8,000Trees were also knocked down near Cottage Grove.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCountywide$8,000Large tree limbs were downed.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCountywide$8,000Trees and large limbs were downed.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWest College Corner$8,000A tree fell on a shelter house at a ball park, causing minor damage. A few other trees and powerlines were downed in town.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindWitts Station$8,000A barn was destroyed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindClifton$7,000Six to seven electric poles in a row were snapped in half or tilted.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCountywide$6,000Trees were knocked down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLotus$5,000A few telephone poles were downed on South Liberty Pike.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCollege Corner$5,000A porch was blown off of a residence. Also, the roof was peeled off over the doorway.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$5,000Several trees and utility lines were downed in the Brownsville and Clifton areas due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindDunlapsville$5,000Numerous trees were downed in Whitewater Memorial State Park due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2011FloodAbington$5,000Several roads were flooded due to heavy rainfall.
March 2008FloodDunlapsville$5,000Numerous roads flooded, including Brownsville Road in Yankeetown and State Route 44 at Nine Mile Bridge.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWest College Corner$5,000Several trees and large limbs were knocked down.
June 2001Flash FloodCountywide$5,000High water on roadways
April 2000Thunderstorm WindLiberty$5,000Numerous trees downed.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCountywide$5,000Numerous trees knocked down across the county, especially in the northern part.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindWitts Station$5,000Trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindCountywide$5,000Trees knocked down in several locations across the county.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCountywide$5,000Numerous trees downed across the county.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCountywide$5,000Several trees were down countywide.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLiberty$5,000Many trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1998Flash FloodCountywide$5,000Heavy rainfall caused several county roads to be covered by water.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCountywide$5,000Trees downed.
June 1998Flash FloodCountywide$5,000Heavy rainfall caused several roads to be closed.
June 1997Flash FloodCountywide$5,000Heavy rainfall caused several roads to be closed as area creeks and streams rose.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindLiberty$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed by high winds in Liberty. Fayette County Connersville,27,0250EST,,,0,0,?,0,Thunderstorm Winds Several trees and power lines were blown down near Connersville.
March 1997HailLiberty$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBillingsville$5,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLiberty$4,000A few trees were downed.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLiberty$4,000Several trees were downed in the Liberty area.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$4,000Trees were downed.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindKitchell$3,000A few trees were downed on Kitchel Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$3,000Several trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLiberty$3,000Trees were knocked down.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLiberty$3,000A few trees were knocked down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLiberty$3,000Trees were downed.

Mines and quarries

2 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 2 workings inside this county. All of them still produce. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction1
Stone1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Union Co. Hwy. DeptStoneProducer
Union County MaterialsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every populated place in the county

19

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • 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.