BlockUnion, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77808. It stands on Bee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kurten quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Kurten quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Union between 2005 and 2019, burning about 203 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-0004959 KURTEN HAY FIRE |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 112 |
| 18 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-0000039 |
| 26 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE8-26-2015 |
| 24 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-0005139 DICK ELLIOTT GRASS FIRE |
| 24 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7353 DICK ELLIOTT RD |
| 22 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 15924 E OSR |
| 6 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-0000027 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edge | 2.0 miles | 7 | |
| Cottonwood | 2.7 miles | 7 | |
| Tabor | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Kurten | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Macey | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Moore | 6.5 miles | 7 | |
| Wixon Valley | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Kings Highway | 7.2 miles | 7 |
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 Union | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q115152745 | 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 1380693. 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.