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.
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
Big Bone Lick State Parklisted 1972
Big Bone Methodist Churchlisted 1989
William Milburn Glore Houselisted 2002
Morris Lassing Houselisted 1990- B. M. Allen Houselisted 1989
- Big Bone Lick Archeological District
- Blankenbecker-Riley Farmlisted 2002
- B. C. Calvert Houselisted 1989
- Dr. M. J. Crouch Houselisted 1989
- East Bend Churchlisted 1989
- Benjamin Piatt Fowler Houselisted 1982
- Peter Gregory Houselisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresUnion 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,379 | |
| 2020 | 7,416 | +2,037 (+38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1950 USGS Union quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Union quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Union quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Union quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph, 2020Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Union | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Union | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $7,000 | Multiple trees were reported knocked down. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $3,000 | Large trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Union | $3,000 | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $2,000 | A large limb and a tree were knocked down near New Haven School Road. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $1,000 | A large tree was downed. |
| February 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $1,000 | One tree was knocked down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $1,000 | A tree was downed, blocking Richmond Road near State Route 42. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Union | $1,000 | Over six inches of flowing water was reported rushing over Richwood Road. |
| February 2021 | Flood | Union | - | Gunpowder Road was closed due to flooding. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Union | - | High water was reported on Old Union Road. |
| March 2012 | Flood | Union | - | 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 2001 | Flash Flood | Union | - | Basements flooded in town |
| February 2025 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hueys Corners | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| Sugartit | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Richwood | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Oakbrook | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Devon | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hopeful Heights | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Kensington | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Florence | 4.6 miles | 11 |
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 Union | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2569123 | 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 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.






