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Union Center, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rising Star census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76471. It stands on Yellow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Union Center quadrangle.

Union Center within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

24 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Union Center between 2006 and 2020, burning about 721 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning2
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
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCACTUS JULE
28 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLIFE RIVER
5 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
28 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTURKEY
18 June 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOX FIRE
9 April 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILSON FIRE
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 207
13 April 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland 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
Branton0.2 miles13
Mountain Top3.9 miles13
Okra4.8 miles13
Romney4.9 miles13
Rising Star5.2 miles12
Chuckville5.9 miles12
Pleasant Hill6.9 miles13
Sabanno7.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379191. 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.