BlockEast Union, Kentucky
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Carlisle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40311. It stands on East Fork Somerset Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sharpsburg quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1952 USGS Sharpsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of East Union between 2000 and 2010, burning about 50 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 | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PISGAH ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Union in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2006 | Flash Flood | East Union | $10,000 | Unspecified crop damage was reported. Two cars were flooded by high water. Burns road was flooded. No homes were damaged and no injuries were reported. Public reported four to five inches of rainfall. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | East Union | - | Ox Bow Road was closed due to high water. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Union | - | There were trees reported down on Somerset Road in Nicholas County. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Union | - | The county emergency manager reported that 3 trees were downed off of Highway 57 near East Union. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moorefield | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Weston | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Carlisle | 5.6 miles | 6 | |
| Sprout | 6.6 miles | 7 | |
| Myers | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Hickory Ridge (historical) | 8.0 miles | 6 | |
| Upper Blue Licks | 9.1 miles | 6 | |
| Milltown | 9.6 miles | 6 |
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 East Union | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5329581 | 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 507901. 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.