West Union, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Crofton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42240. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Honey Grove quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

West Union within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of West Union (historical) between 2004 and 2017, burning about 220 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	125 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FRUITHILL
18 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 February 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 November 2008	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian 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
Ovil	1.8 miles	7
Carl	2.1 miles	7
Bluff Spring	2.4 miles	14
Fearsville	3.3 miles	7
Fruit Hill	4.4 miles	14
Laytonsville (historical)	5.2 miles	7
Honey Grove	5.8 miles	7
Hickory With (historical)	5.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742909. 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.