Union, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stockdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78140. The Survey maps it on the Nixon quadrangle.

Union within Wilson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1920 USGS Smiley quadrangle1:125000
1942 USGS Dewville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Dewville quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Nixon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

70 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Union between 2004 and 2018, burning about 1,456 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
25 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 August 2010	Natural	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TOBY GORDON PASTURE FIRE
23 August 2005	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 August 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROBIN ZELLA PASTURE FIRE
21 August 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	87/1347 FIRE
2 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRAILER BLOWOUT FIRE
19 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FISHER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilson 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
Caddo	3.6 miles	12
Nockenut	4.0 miles	12
Pandora	4.8 miles	13
Alum	6.6 miles	12
Stockdale	8.4 miles	10
Denhawken	10.8 miles	10
Sutherland Springs	11.7 miles	9
Gray Crossing	13.1 miles	10

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	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48818181	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 1380692. 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.