South Union, Kentucky

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatorylisted 1974

Surveyed buildings and structures 10 records

• Barn, South Unionfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Shaker Centre Family Drying House, West side of U.S. Route 68, South Unionfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Shaker Centre Family Dwelling House, West side of U.S. Route 68, South Unionfederal building survey, 52 photographs
• Shaker Centre Family Dwelling, Bell Tower, U.S. Route 68, South Unionfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Shaker Centre Family Ministry's Shop & Dwelling, East side of U.S. Route 68, South Unionfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Shaker Centre Family Preservatory, West side of U.S. Route 68, South Unionfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Shaker Centre Family Washhouse, U.S. Route 68, South Unionfederal building survey, 13 photographs
• Shaker Centre Family Well Structure, U.S. Route 68, South Unionfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Shaker Centre Family, General View, West side of U.S. Route 68, South Unionfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Shaker South Union Tavern, East side of Route 73, South Unionfederal building survey, 2 photographs

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.

• 1951 USGS South Union quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of South Union between 2000 and 2019, burning about 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Auburn
• Liberty (historical)
• Sugar Grove (historical)
• Buffalo Fork
• Chandlers Chapel
• Gasper

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Union: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Logan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Union in 1 storm report in 1993: 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.

Every storm recorded in Logan County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503981. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.