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Union Grove, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gladewater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75647. It stands on Whetstone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gladewater quadrangle. 441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Union Grove within Upshur County

On record in Union Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Union Grove grew from 346 to 441 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000346
2010357+11 (+3%)
2020441+84 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

703 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 703 fires within 5 miles of Union Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,892 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 37 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 burning335
Missing data/not specified/undetermined172
Power generation/transmission/distribution61
Equipment and vehicle use42
Arson/incendiarism37
Smoking20
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony9
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service600 S. LOOP 485
9 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGHAM
9 September 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 230
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1802 N. WHITE OAK RD
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePINE 15-318
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6177
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEWART ST
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2685 BEFORE GLADEWATER CITY LIMITS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Grove in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 1998HailUnion Grove$250,000Baseball size hail broke numerous windows at the Union Grove School and damaged the roof.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-Damage reported to two residential homes and a boat house on Lake Gladewater.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-Tree downed on a power line at the intersection of Pyeatt Drive and North Point Pleasant Road.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-Power lines downed north of Gladewater, reported via mPING.
May 2024HailUnion Grove-Quarter size hail reported in the Union Grove community.
August 2022Flash FloodUnion Grove-Several roads flooded and closed near Gladewater.
August 2022Flash FloodUnion Grove-Flooding forced the closure of North Phillips Spring Road, with several vehicles stranded in the high water.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-A 50 foot tall oak tree with a 16 inch wide trunk was blown down across the 5000 block of East Lake Drive in the Union Grove community.
February 2020Flash FloodUnion Grove-East Lake Drive at McCoy Creek was flooded and impassable.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Union Grove-An EF-0 tornado with maximum estimated winds of 65-75 mph touched down along North White Oak Road on the edge of the Union Grove incorporated limits and crossed Seagull Road before entering Northern Gregg County. The tornado intensified into an EF-1 tornado shortly after it crossed over into Gregg County across Morgan Road west of East Mountain Road. Several large tree limbs were snapped from the tops of trees along North White Oak Road, Seagull Road, and Morgan Road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-A large hardwood tree was uprooted on West Gay Avenue in North Gladewater.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-Large branches were blown down across a driveway on East Lake Drive adjacent to Lake Gladewater.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-Large branches were blown down along Phillip Springs Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-Estimated wind gust in the Union Grove community.
May 2011Funnel CloudUnion Grove-A funnel cloud was observed from a wall cloud just northwest of Gladewater, Texas. However, no known touchdowns were noted.
November 2011HailUnion Grove-Hail was reported in the Union Grove community.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindUnion Grove-Trees and powerlines were toppled across the area including one that blocked U.S. Hwy 80.
April 2014HailUnion Grove-no account filed
May 2002HailUnion Grove-no account filed
May 2000HailUnion Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Phillips2.3 miles12
West Mountain2.8 miles12
East Mountain3.8 miles13
Wilkins4.8 miles13
Mings Chapel5.4 miles12
Pattonfield5.4 miles12
Center Point5.9 miles13
Glenwood6.3 miles12

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 Q978760The 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 1379192. 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.

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.