Photograph of Old Union Church and Cemetery — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Union Church and Cemetery, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Old Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery located in Reeve Township, Daviess County, Indiana. Built in 1858, the church is a one-story Greek Revival-style frame structure with clapboard siding and a gable roof, featuring a projecting entrance tower added around 1900.”
Wikipedia article Old Union Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Daviess County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1125 E Approx 3/8 mi. S of jct. with 700 S, Alfordsville, 47553
When was it listed? June 2005
Category. building
Township. Reeve township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000605 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

321 words

This property stands in Reeve Township. History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. ; Together with an Extended History of the Colonial Days of Vincennes, and Its Progress Down to the Formation of the State Government, published 1886 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Reeve Township - 321 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Union Church and Cemetery, Old: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this property

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alfordsville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2010: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alfordsville	$3,000	Power lines were downed and power outages were reported across the county.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Alfordsville	$750	The town of Alfordsville was inaccessible for a brief period of time due to high water. As of 630 AM EDT, only one road was passible in and out of Alfordsville.
June 2004	Hail	Alfordsville	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Alfordsville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Flash Flood	Alfordsville	-	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Alfordsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daviess County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000605 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Daviess County	All 11 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.