Uniontown, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66779. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Uniontown quadrangle. 293 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresUniontown grew from 272 to 293 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 | 272 | |
| 2020 | 293 | +21 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 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.
- 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Uniontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
26 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Uniontown between 2015 and 2020, burning about 545 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 228 |
| 8 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 158 |
| 14 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Bourbon County | 124 |
| 10 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 64 |
| 3 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 55 |
| 3 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 56 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uniontown in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Uniontown | $50,000 | A NWS storm survey determined that a weak EF-0 tornado occurred, with a path length of 3.12 miles and a width of 75 yards. Maximum wind speeds of 85 mph led to siding damage on a home, five outbuildings damaged or destroyed, and a number of trees either uprooted or having large limbs snapped. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $50,000 | Siding and shingles were blown off a few homes. A few homes had roof damage. A few outbuildings and detached garages were destroyed. This report was around the Uniontown area. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $35,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds associated with a gust front, blowing from north to south, blew a tractor trailer over on Highway 54 west of Uniontown and downed several power lines in town. Highway 54 runs east to west and is perpendicular to the severe wind gust. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $25,000 | High winds were strong enough to roll round bales of hay and down several power lines. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | The Mesonet site 3NW of Uniontown recorded a wind gust of 58mph. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Uniontown | - | Hail to the size of half dollars was reported in mainly farm land. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | The Fort Scott Mesonet site recorded a 79 mph wind gust. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | The Mesonet station at Uniontown recorded a 61 mph wind gust. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | A KSU Mesonet site reported a 63 Knot wind gust. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Uniontown | - | Hen egg size hail was reported by the Fire Department. This was a delayed report. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | The public reported several large limbs blown down. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Uniontown | - | Law enforcement reported golf ball size hail in Uniontown. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Uniontown | - | Flooding continued from persistent rainfall across Bourbon County. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and powerlines near the communities of Uniontown and Redfield. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petersburg | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Redfield | 5.0 miles | 19 | |
| Bronson | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Berlin | 6.6 miles | 19 | |
| Rockford (historical) | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Marmaton | 8.0 miles | 20 | |
| Hollister | 9.4 miles | 20 | |
| Devon | 9.8 miles | 20 |
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 Q2320817 | 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 474755. 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.











