South Union Grove, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bedford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41008. It lies near Nilly Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Carrollton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

South Union Grove within Trimble County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1943 USGS Brooksburg quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of South Union Grove (historical) between 1999 and 2014, burning about 25 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	2
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
11 April 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 April 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BUCK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trimble 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
Monitor	1.5 miles	11
South Mount Tabor (historical)	2.7 miles	11
Mount Tabor (historical)	3.0 miles	11
North Mount Tabor (historical)	3.8 miles	11
Callis Grove	4.2 miles	11
Providence	4.7 miles	7
Carmon	4.8 miles	8
Bedford	5.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742531. 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.