Old Union, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dalby Springs-Simms census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75574. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Corley quadrangle.

Old Union within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1909 USGS New Boston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Corley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS New Boston quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Old Union between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,270 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 26 were 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
Debris and open burning	78
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1

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
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 638
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 186
28 September 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 1112
24 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 395

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie 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
Carbondale	2.1 miles	13
Simms	2.3 miles	11
Corley	3.9 miles	13
Old Boston	5.1 miles	14
Bassett	5.3 miles	11
Siloam	5.9 miles	11
Maud	6.5 miles	13
Darden	6.7 miles	11

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 Old Union	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113987500	The 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 1380897. 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.