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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.

Union within Salt Lake County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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.

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.

Horace W. Burgon House, 7501 South 700 East, Union, Salt Lake County, UT
Horace W. Burgon House, 7501 South 700 East, Union, Salt Lake County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

19 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined11
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTONYA
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeQUAIL HOLLOW
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSIENNA
6 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOLE CAT
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeMILLVILLE CANYON
31 August 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBINGHAM ASSIST
2 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCANYON COVE
12 August 1995Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGNSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 84 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
All Minerals MillBarium-BariteProducer
Alta ChampionSilver, Lead, Gold, BismuthProducerVein
Big Mitt and Blue Point MineGold, CopperPast Producer1904
Blue Jay ProspectCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Dry Fork MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Interstate Brick Quartzite QuarrySilicaPast ProducerQuartz
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.Zinc, Silver, Lead, ArsenicProducer
Murry Refractories PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2013Thunderstorm WindUnion$1,000An isolated microburst over the Salt Lake Valley knocked over a large cottonwood tree at Wheeler Historic Farm. The time is approximate.

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
Midvale1.6 miles24
Atwood1.6 miles25
Sandy City2.1 miles24
Dalton2.3 miles25
Little Cottonwood Creek Valley2.5 miles25
Endot2.8 miles24
Cottonwood Heights3.3 miles25
Cottonwood (historical)3.3 miles25

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.