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Union Church, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It lies in ZIP code area 53132. The Survey maps it on the North Cape quadrangle. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Union Church within Racine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

15 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Union Church between 2010 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Natural2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1376
27 May 2010Natural200 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeBIG MUSKEGO MARSH WF
26 May 2010Natural180 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20018
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources93
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources927
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18023
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Church in 1 storm report in 1997: 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 1997Thunderstorm WindUnion Church$500,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Racine 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
Kneeland3.4 miles17
Raymond4.2 miles17
North Cape4.5 miles17
Wind Lake4.8 miles18
Kilbournville6.7 miles17
Tichigan6.9 miles18
Beaumont7.3 miles18
Yorkville7.4 miles18

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 ChurchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7885503The 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 1575900. 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.

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.