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Union Grove, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the South Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76571. The Survey maps it on the Nolanville quadrangle. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Union Grove within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

95 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Union Grove between 2002 and 2019, burning about 1,247 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
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
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTILLHOUSE FIRE
4 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG VALLEY
30 September 2005Debris and open burning261 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUSTANG CREEK
25 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service195 BRENDA
21 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTHSHORE FIRE
16 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Union Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bandas Industries Inc Reed,S LakeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Grove in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2009LightningUnion Grove$400,000An unsold house on Jewel Lane near Stillhouse Hollow Lake was destroyed by a fire started by lightning.
September 2009Flash FloodUnion Grove$150,000Significant flash flooding occurred in southern Bell County when 9-15 of rain fell in less than 10 hours. The town of Salado was hit the hardest during the early afternoon hours. Salado Creek that runs through town overflowed its banks and forced the evacuations of approximately 12 families. The rapid rise in the creek also heavily damaged the Main Street Bridge, ripping the asphalt from the bridge and forcing its closure through October 14th. In other areas of Salado, the water was reported to be nearly 10 feet over some bridges and some homes were flooded with up to two feet of water. In addition, Interstate 35 near the Bell/Willimason county line had to be closed for a few hours and other parts of the interstate were down to one lane due to water on the road. The access roads of Interstate 35 between Salado and the Bell/Williamson county line were also closed due to water over the roads. Many of these road closures began during the early afternoon hours. In the town of Bartlett, 5 of water was reported to be flooding streets, and 5 of water was also reported over FM 487, east of Bartlett. Additional roads in the southern portions of the county were flooded and closed as well.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove$8,000A homeowner reported multiple trees uprooted and others snapped on his property north of Stillhouse Hollow Lake. Large limbs fell on the roof of the home, and other lightweight outdoor items were moved around. Damage to outbuildings in this area was also reported.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove$7,000Trees were reported down and parts of a deck were ripped off a home northwest of Salado.
November 2022HailUnion Grove$7,000Golf ball sized hail was reported on FM 2484 to the west of FM 1620 near Salado.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-A trained spotter reported wind gusts of 60 mph just south of Harker Heights, TX.
June 2019HailUnion Grove-A trained spotter reported half-dollar size hail just south of Stillhouse Hollow Dam, or approximately 4 miles west-southwest of the city of Salado, TX.
October 2010HailUnion Grove-Nickel size hail was reported 3 miles south of Harker Heights.
September 2009FloodUnion Grove-Ongoing flooding continued in southern Bell County and additional rainfall during this period kept much of the area flooded. The town of Salado remained flooded and several roads in the southern portions of the county remain closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Salado5.0 miles14
Nolanville5.4 miles19
Dog Ridge (historical)6.3 miles19
Harker Heights6.5 miles18
Youngsport6.9 miles15
Cedar Valley7.7 miles15
Prairie Dell8.1 miles14
Belton8.2 miles16

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 GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q31568136The 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 1380695. 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.

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.