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Unity Village, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64065. The Survey maps it on the Lees Summit quadrangle. 66 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Unity Village within Jackson County

On record in Unity Village

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Unity Village fell from 99 to 66 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
201099
202066-33 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 24 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.

In the county-history sources

3,650 words on this township

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Prairie Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Prairie Township - 3,650 words.

Fires near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Unity Village between 2007 and 2014, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Unity Village: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unknow-ShaleClayPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rock Acres Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Knobtown1.8 miles24
Vale2.0 miles24
Little Blue2.8 miles24
Lees Summit3.0 miles24
Longview3.3 miles24
Union Point3.4 miles24
South Lee4.5 miles24
Raytown5.1 miles26

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 Unity VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2333354The 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 728064. 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.