Union City Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Union City Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Union City, Indiana. The district encompasses 53 contributing buildings in the central business district of Union City.”
Wikipedia article Union City Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Randolph County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by W. Oak, N. Union, W. Smith, and N. Howard Sts., Union City, 47390
When was it listed? March 1999
Category. district
Township. Wayne township
National Register reference number. 99000303 - 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

43,559 words

The chapter on Wayne Township in 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 Union City. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

WILLIAM KENNON, born in I.eland, cnme lo America when fourteen years old; lived for a time in Guernsey County, Ohio, ami came to IlanJolph County, Ind., in 1830. He settled on the Downing place, south from the tollgale south of Union City. He married Eleanor Smith, and hart four children. He owned '210 acres of land, was a Democrat, was .Justice of the Peace for four years, and was highly esteemed for integrity and inlelligonce. He died many years ago, as did also his wife, but the dale of their death cannot now be exactly told.

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.

Richard Mason (father of the " Mason's') was horn in North Carolina in about 1795; came to Clinton County, Ohio, when a boy, perhaps in 1805, married .Sarih Jackson in Ohio, movcil thence to Wayne County, Ind., and to Kosciusko County, Ind., to the latter in 1834. He hail ten children, and died in 1844 in the last named county, his wife dying in Randolph County, Ind., In 1850. His children all grew up and were married, and eight still survive. They are as follows : Thomas, ten children, resides at Union City, Ind. ; Elizabelh (JIason), seven children, is dead; DelilB (Harper), four children, lives in Iowa; Louisa (Drake), seven children, is dead; William, has seven children, resides in Union; Sarah (Gunter), one child, Kosciusko County; Salina(Frazier-Milnor) nine children, Iowa ; Elihu, several children, resides in Ohio ; Mary (Conkling), four children, Wayne Township ; Jemima(Duncan), three children, Iowa. Six of them have been residents of Randolph County, Thomas, William, Salina, Elihu, M.ary and Jemima; and Thomas, William and Mary live here sllU.

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 - 43,559 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union City, the town this property stands in, 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

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.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Raphael Kirshbaum Building	under 500 feet	1990
Union City Passenger Depot	0.1 miles	1983
Union City Public Library	0.2 miles	2004
William Kerr House	0.3 miles	1987
Union City School	0.3 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000303 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph County	All 12 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.
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.