Union City, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47390. It stands on City Drain. The Survey maps it on the Union City quadrangle. 3,454 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,125 feet above sea level.

Union City within Randolph County

On record in Union City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

William Kerr Houselisted 1987
Raphael Kirshbaum Buildinglisted 1990
Union City Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1999
Union City Passenger Depotlisted 1983
Union City Public Librarylisted 2004
Union City Schoollisted 2010

Population over time

2 figures

Union City fell from 3,584 to 3,454 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	3,584
2020	3,454	-130 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1916 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1918 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Union City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

In the county-history sources

43,559 words on this township

History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Hartman, Wayne Township. :ame with his father to Ran- Huckeye Seminary U. L. Institute, at B taught school before he was seventeen, and has tjvught twenty-four winters. He married Sarah Ann Williamson in 18."iH, and they have had eight children. He is a prosperous and aiiccesaful farmer, taking delight in caring for all his afthirs in a neat and thorough manner. Though con-idered alightly eccentric by some, and Ipoing withal a man independent in opinion, he is a most energetic supporter of all good things. In politics, he

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

SOLOMON HARTMAN is the son of Johi He was born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1855; dolph County, Ind., in 1848; attende " " ' Gettysburg. P " ' ' ' ' erelong, to see the world "turned upside down," or, as he would say, turned " right side up," and hopes to witness the ushering in of the new era, when everybody shall have all the money he wishes, and more, too, and when that blessed lime shall come may we all be there to see and to receive, moreover, each one his full and abundant share. Mr. H. resides near his father's old farm about five miles southwest of Onion City and a little north of Greenville Creek. Mr. H. is a thoroughly enterprising and greatly public-spirited citizen, entering heartily into every movement for the advancement of the public welfare.

PETER HOOVER, Su., born in Virginia; came to Randolph County, Ind., in the spring of 1834 ; had eight children, seven now living He died many years ago, as also his wife. She belonged to the Presbyterian Church. He was a Democrat.

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 Wayne Township - it names this place 106 more 106 times.

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union City in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	$150,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts caused a covered bridge at Harter Park to collapse.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	$120,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage to the roof and A/C unit of Union City Jr/Sr High School.
August 2007	Lightning	Union City	$10,000	Lightning struck the Union City police department's communication system. The storm took out the base radio and a couple of computers.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	$5,000	Utility poles and power lines were downed.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	$4,000	Multiple power poles knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts in Union City.
November 2017	Flood	Union City	$3,000	Localized flooding was occurring on various streets due to heavy rainfall. Rainfall of 2.38 inches fell in the Emergency Manager's rain gauge.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	$2,500	The Randolph County EMA reported a tin roof being blown off an American Legion storage shed that was completely open on one side due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. A trampoline was also picked up and tossed.
May 2014	Hail	Union City	-	This report was relayed by Emergency Management.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	-	Trees were down near County Road 700 East due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	-	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Union City	-	Weak, Brief Touchdown
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Union City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Haysville Corner	1.7 miles	19
New Lisbon	3.0 miles	19
South Salem	3.9 miles	19
Harrisville	4.0 miles	18
Saratoga	6.3 miles	18
Bartonia	6.4 miles	18
New Pittsburg	8.7 miles	14
Winchester	9.4 miles	18

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 Union City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2786160	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 445119. 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.

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.