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Union, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63445. The Survey maps it on the Neeper quadrangle.

Union within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Union between 1996 and 2018, burning about 206 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation140216-02309-09292016-1231
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177747-02309-08012018-2203
20 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177749-02309-07192018-0634
8 June 2018Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177750-02309-06082018-1347
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177047-02309-05252018-2253
5 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136591-02309-04052016-1527
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177050-02309-04302018-1931

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Neeper2.9 miles16
Antioch4.2 miles16
Kahoka4.4 miles17
Medill5.1 miles16
Clark City5.6 miles17
Ashton6.4 miles16
Waterloo7.5 miles17
Winchester8.2 miles17

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 Q27984532The 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 731740. 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.