Union, Washington

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Battle Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98662. It lies near Fourth Plains. The Survey maps it on the Orchards quadrangle.

Union within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 33 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.

1897 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1905 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1940 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Orchards quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Orchards quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Orchards quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Orchards quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Union between 1992 and 2019, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2

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 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	4.9 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	91ST STREET
21 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BLACK GRASS
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	148TH STREET
13 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SE 17 AVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Union: 10 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Clay, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Brush Prairie Placer	Gold, Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Wilde	Clay	Past Producer
Bokemier Iron Deposit	Iron	Prospect
Howland Acres Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Homan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Marrion Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Salmon Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Homan	1.7 miles	33
Brush Prairie	1.7 miles	33
Five Corners	2.0 miles	33
Sifton	2.7 miles	33
Barberton	2.7 miles	33
Orchards	2.9 miles	33
Saint John	3.3 miles	33
Meadow Glade	3.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1509172. 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.