Union County, Iowa, United States

Details for Union County

Name

Union County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Creston

Coordinates

Latitude		41.0333234		41° 01' 60" N
Longitude		-94.2507874		94° 15' 02.8" W

Population

12,750

Elevation

381 m

Surrounding Counties

Madison NE
Clarke E
Decatur SE
Ringgold S
Taylor SW
Adams W
Adair NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465276

Histopolis Place ID

173101610

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Union County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

The Political Graveyard: Union County, Iowa [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/UN.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Union County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Union County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Union/ (7 Apr 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=634 (24 Aug 2009)

Union County [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/union/union.htm (14 Jan 2010)

Union County, Iowa Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Union County, Iowa
http://www.interment.net/us/ia/union.htm (16 May 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Union County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Union County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Union/cem/ (25 Nov 2008)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Union County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/unioncounty.html (27 Jan 2010)

Union County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Union County, Iowa IA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7705 (13 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Union County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7705&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (30 Nov 2008)

Union County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_County,_Iowa (4 Aug 2010)

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Surveys in Union County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 12 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Union County. You can navigate to any of the 12 survey townships that overlap Union County using the navigation tool below.

Survey: Range:

Townships of Union County

12 Townships

Dodge	Douglas	Grant	Highland
Jones	Lincoln	New Hope	Platte
Pleasant	Sand Creek	Spaulding	Union

Cities of Union County

7 Cities, 7 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Afton	Afton Junction (historical u.p.)	Arispe	Country Court Mobile Home Park (u.p.)
Creston	Cromwell	East Creston (u.p.)	Kent (u.p.)
Lorimor	Monette (u.p.)	Shannon	Shepard (historical u.p.)
Talmage (u.p.)	Thayer

Cemeteries of Union County

36 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Abel	Bethel	Beulah	Bragg
Brown Family	Bruening	Calvary (Douglas Township)	Calvary (Union Township)
Cedar Grove	Claypool	Cornwall	County Home
Dodge Center	Evergreen	Graceland	Green Lawn
Groesbeck	Grove Chapel	Harmony	Homewood
Ide Family	Jerusalem	Leas	Lorimor
Lytles Grove	Maple Hill	McDuthies	Morgan
Mount Pisgah	Mt. Pisgah (*)	Norris Family	Otterbein
Prairie Lawn	Reasoner	Spaulding Center	Thayer
West Union

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