Union High, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dawson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76639. The Survey maps it on the Union High quadrangle.

Union High within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Union High quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

69 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Union High between 2005 and 2019, burning about 793 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	22505 HWY 14
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PIPLINE55
12 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JIM MEREDITH
11 September 2008	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TROMPLER FARMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rodney	1.7 miles	6
Eldorado Center	1.7 miles	7
Pursley	5.8 miles	7
Dawson	7.1 miles	7
Purdon	7.3 miles	7
Currie	8.2 miles	7
Spring Hill	8.8 miles	7
Navarro Mills	9.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122589211

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 2034739. 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.