Union, Utah
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84047. The Survey maps it on the Draper quadrangle.
On record in Union
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Horace W. Burgon House, 7501 South 700 East, Unionfederal building survey, 6 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 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.
- 1885 USGS Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1925 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000
- 1928 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Draper quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Draper quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Draper quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
19 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Union between 1992 and 2020, burning about 340 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TONYA |
| 1 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | QUAIL HOLLOW |
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SIENNA |
| 6 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | POLE CAT |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | MILLVILLE CANYON |
| 31 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BINGHAM ASSIST |
| 2 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CANYON COVE |
| 12 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | FERGNSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 84 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 84 workings within 5 miles of Union: 41 producers, 34 past producers, 9 occurrences. 41 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Minerals Mill | Barium-Barite | Producer | ||
| Alta Champion | Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth | Producer | Vein | |
| Big Mitt and Blue Point Mine | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1904 | |
| Blue Jay Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Dry Fork Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Interstate Brick Quartzite Quarry | Silica | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Midvale Minerals Co | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic | Past Producer | ||
| Midvale Minerals Co. | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic | Producer | ||
| Murry Refractories Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| National Tunnel and Mines Co. | Lead, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $1,000 | An isolated microburst over the Salt Lake Valley knocked over a large cottonwood tree at Wheeler Historic Farm. The time is approximate. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midvale | 1.6 miles | 24 | |
| Atwood | 1.6 miles | 25 | |
| Sandy City | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Dalton | 2.3 miles | 25 | |
| Little Cottonwood Creek Valley | 2.5 miles | 25 | |
| Endot | 2.8 miles | 24 | |
| Cottonwood Heights | 3.3 miles | 25 | |
| Cottonwood (historical) | 3.3 miles | 25 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1433782. 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.
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.









