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Union, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41091. The Survey maps it on the Union quadrangle. 7,416 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Union within Boone County

On record in Union

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 12 of 18 shown

Every listing in Boone County

Population over time

2 figures

Union grew from 5,379 to 7,416 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,379
20207,416+2,037 (+38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2020

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.

Two classic, side-by-side black Kentucky tobacco barns near the town of Union
Two classic, side-by-side black Kentucky tobacco barns near the town of Union
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996Flash FloodUnion$1,000,000no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodUnion$1,000,000no account filed
October 2016Thunderstorm WindUnion$7,000Multiple trees were reported knocked down.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindUnion$3,000Large trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2008HailUnion$3,000no account filed
October 2016Thunderstorm WindUnion$2,000A large limb and a tree were knocked down near New Haven School Road.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindUnion$1,000A large tree was downed.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindUnion$1,000One tree was knocked down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindUnion$1,000A tree was downed, blocking Richmond Road near State Route 42.
April 2011Flash FloodUnion$1,000Over six inches of flowing water was reported rushing over Richwood Road.
February 2021FloodUnion-Gunpowder Road was closed due to flooding.
September 2018FloodUnion-High water was reported on Old Union Road.
March 2012FloodUnion-High standing water was reported near Richmond and Hicks Roads. Water was up to a car door in the area. These occurrences were due to heavy rainfall.
July 2001Flash FloodUnion-Basements flooded in town
February 2025HailUnion-no account filed
April 2025HailUnion-no account filed
April 2024HailUnion-no account filed
April 2024HailUnion-no account filed
October 2016HailUnion-no account filed
March 2012HailUnion-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindUnion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hueys Corners2.0 miles11
Sugartit2.1 miles11
Richwood3.4 miles11
Oakbrook3.7 miles11
Devon3.8 miles11
Hopeful Heights4.0 miles20
Kensington4.6 miles11
Florence4.6 miles11

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 UnionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2569123The 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 505762. 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.

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.