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Union Valley, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75160. The Survey maps it on the Terrell South quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Union Valley within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

335 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Union Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,120 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 burning157
Equipment and vehicle use54
Smoking50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6525 IH 20
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service136B
4 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2578
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service275
3 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceYELLOW
3 September 2016Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceT-M

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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 Valley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jahnes PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Kaufman 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
Wilson1.1 miles10
Terrell3.0 miles10
Cartwright3.0 miles10
Oak Ridge3.4 miles10
Lawrence3.8 miles10
Post Oak Bend4.1 miles10
Post Oak Bend City4.6 miles10
Talty4.6 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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076604The 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 1379195. 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.