East Union, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42325. The Survey maps it on the Millport quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

East Union within Muhlenberg 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.

1909 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Millport quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Millport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

63 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of East Union (historical) between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,323 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GAS WELL
4 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FURLOUGHWEEN
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	165 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	503 COMPLEX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Earles	1.4 miles	14
Sandy	1.9 miles	14
Graham	2.5 miles	14
McDonalds (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Briar Creek	3.2 miles	14
Midland	3.5 miles	16
New Cypress	3.6 miles	16
Gordon (historical)	4.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743008. 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.