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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Union Station, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43023. The Survey maps it on the Granville quadrangle.

Union Station within Licking County

Then and now

1908 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Union Station, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Union Station, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 nearby

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Union Station between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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
Smoking1

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
15 April 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15709

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,951 shown

Museums hold 2,951 specimens collected within 10 miles of Union Station between 1843 and 1975: 2,606 Animalia, 260 Fungi, 56 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822Cylindrosporium Grev., 18221893unknownLicking Reservoir
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypnum paludosum, not of this specimenHypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853Mack, D. (Don)Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Philomachus pugnax, not of this specimenPhilomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Jasper, T. (Theodore)Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891874not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)1878Savage, E. (Ed)Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aix sponsa, not of this specimenAix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,951 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Union Station in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2019FloodUnion Station$40,000A culvert under Deeds Rd was washed out due to flooding of Ramp Creek.
October 2010Tornado (EF0)Union Station$15,000A brief tornado touched down just southwest of a subdivision and moved through part of the subdivision before lifting. Several large trees were snapped off due to the tornado. In addition, there was minor structural damage to several homes including windows blown out, roofing material removed, and chimney damage. The damage is consistent with wind speeds around 80 miles per hour.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindUnion Station$3,000Wires were downed on James Road.

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Sandstone Canyon1.9 miles11
Central City (historical)2.4 miles12
Pinecrest Estates2.8 miles11
Canyon Villa Estates3.1 miles11
Granville3.2 miles10
Heath3.6 miles12
Idlewild Park (historical)4.1 miles12
Locust Grove4.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065406. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.