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Uniontown, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47513. It stands on Tige Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bristow quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Uniontown within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Uniontown between 1993 and 2014, burning about 208 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
9 September 2002Smokingunder an acreHoosier National ForestMP76
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestDOOLITTLE MILLS
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresHoosier National ForestI-64
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresHoosier National ForestKEMP FIRE
21 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresHoosier National ForestHASKINS
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHoosier National ForestDOOLITTLE MILLS
14 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHoosier National ForestST. MARKS
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestUNIONTOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uniontown in 1 storm report in 2015: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015HailUniontown$20,000An employee with Winzerwald Winery reported golf ball sized hail. Patio furniture on the property also was blown around due to severe thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Fosters Ridge0.5 miles14
Kitterman Corners2.0 miles14
Sassafras3.0 miles14
Doolittle Mills3.5 miles13
Celina3.6 miles14
Saint Croix3.9 miles14
Siberia4.0 miles14
Apalona5.1 miles14

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 UniontownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197887The 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 451591. 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.