BlockUniontown, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47229. The Survey maps it on the Crothersville quadrangle. It stands 574 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Crothersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crothersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Uniontown in 2019, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge | VAN FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uniontown in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Uniontown | $50,000 | County Road 150 South was washed out due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $5,000 | Trees were downed near State Route 250 and County Road 950 West due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $4,000 | Trees were downed in Uniontown due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Uniontown | - | This report was relayed via Twitter. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Langoons | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| Retreat | 2.1 miles | 8 | |
| Crothersville | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Chestnut Ridge | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Dudleytown | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Newry | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Kriete Corner | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| New Farmington | 5.9 miles | 8 |
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 Uniontown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7886837 | 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 445138. 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.
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.