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Union City, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49094. It stands on Coldwater River. The Survey maps it on the Union City quadrangle.

Union City within Branch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Union City between 2018 and 2019, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000049 - 2019
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000048 - 2019
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURLINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000148 - 2018
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000044 - 2019
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURLINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000094 - 2018
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000039 - 2019
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000030 - 2019
3 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000031 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Branch County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Union City: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Calcium, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
David Allwood PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Peerless Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Turtle Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
William Case Marl PitCalciumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Branch County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union City in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindUnion City$10,000Trees and powerlines down in Union City. Highway M60 is impassable in spots, closed by state police.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindUnion City$10,000no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindUnion City$1,000A trained spotter estimated a wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2024HailUnion City$500Report from mping.
May 2024HailUnion City-Picture on Twitter, X, of 4 inch diameter hail.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Emergency management officials reported a two and one half foot diameter tree uprooted.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindUnion City-The public reported several trees down near Union Lake.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Emergency management officials reported tree limbs down onto power lines near Union City. A transformer was on fire on one of the power poles that was affected.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Emergency management officials reported a large tree down near the intersection of S and Union Roads.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Emergency management officials reported trees down 1 mile southeast of Union City.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Emergency management officials reported trees down five miles southeast of Union City.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion City-A tree was blown down across Adolph Road near Clay Road, just south of Union City.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Emergency management officials reported damage to a barn and a billboard being blwon down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Emergency management officials reported power lines down in Union City.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Emergency management officials reported the top of a pine tree was broken off and blown onto a road three miles west of Union City.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Law enforcement officials reported several trees down in the Union City area.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Numerous trees and power lines down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindUnion City-County dispatch reported trees down in the area.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Trees and power lines reported blown down around Union City.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Three trees were blown down in Union City.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindUnion City-One tree was blown down.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindUnion City-A large tree was blown down in Union City.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Law enforcement reported trees down in Union City.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Law enforcement reported trees down south of Union City.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Numerous trees down.
April 2010HailUnion City-no account filed
April 2003HailUnion City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Branch 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
Hodunk5.3 miles14
Sherwood7.1 miles14
Girard7.6 miles14
Batavia Center8.8 miles10
Matteson9.1 miles9
Batavia10.8 miles10
Coldwater11.3 miles10
Trailtree Village11.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1615340. 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.