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.
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
John and Eva O'Bryne Houselisted 2005
Population over time
3 figuresUnion 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 346 | |
| 2010 | 357 | +11 (+3%) |
| 2020 | 441 | +84 (+24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 12 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.
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Gladewater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
703 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 335 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 172 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 61 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 42 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Smoking | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 600 S. LOOP 485 |
| 9 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BINGHAM |
| 9 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 230 |
| 8 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1802 N. WHITE OAK RD |
| 8 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PINE 15-318 |
| 8 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6177 |
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STEWART ST |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2685 BEFORE GLADEWATER CITY LIMITS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1998 | Hail | Union Grove | $250,000 | Baseball size hail broke numerous windows at the Union Grove School and damaged the roof. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Damage reported to two residential homes and a boat house on Lake Gladewater. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Tree downed on a power line at the intersection of Pyeatt Drive and North Point Pleasant Road. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Power lines downed north of Gladewater, reported via mPING. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Union Grove | - | Quarter size hail reported in the Union Grove community. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Union Grove | - | Several roads flooded and closed near Gladewater. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Union Grove | - | Flooding forced the closure of North Phillips Spring Road, with several vehicles stranded in the high water. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union 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 2020 | Flash Flood | Union Grove | - | East Lake Drive at McCoy Creek was flooded and impassable. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | A large hardwood tree was uprooted on West Gay Avenue in North Gladewater. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Large branches were blown down across a driveway on East Lake Drive adjacent to Lake Gladewater. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Large branches were blown down along Phillip Springs Road. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Estimated wind gust in the Union Grove community. |
| May 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Union Grove | - | A funnel cloud was observed from a wall cloud just northwest of Gladewater, Texas. However, no known touchdowns were noted. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Union Grove | - | Hail was reported in the Union Grove community. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Trees and powerlines were toppled across the area including one that blocked U.S. Hwy 80. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Union Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Union Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Union Grove | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phillips | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| West Mountain | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| East Mountain | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Wilkins | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Mings Chapel | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pattonfield | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Center Point | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Glenwood | 6.3 miles | 12 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978760 | 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 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.



