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Union County, Florida

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1921formed

16,147pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1992. Most listings are in or near Lake Butler.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Union titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
King, John A., House	Lake Butler	Building	2004
Lake Butler Woman's Club	Lake Butler	Building	2003
Townsend Building	Lake Butler	Building	1992
Townsend, James W., House	Lake Butler	Building	1996

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Union was formed in 1921 (1921-10-01) from Bradford.

UNION created from BRADFORD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Union County population from 1930 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
7,428	7,094	8,906	6,043	10,166	13,442	16,147

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethany Cemetery	29.9669	-82.45261
Dekle Cemetery	30.01384	-82.34205
Douglas Cemetery	30.08856	-82.46873
Elzey Chapel Cemetery	29.95456	-82.39884
Fort Call Cemetery	29.95027	-82.48722
Little Rock Cemetery	30.01551	-82.30427
New Zion Cemetery	30.07523	-82.49956
Old Providence Cemetery	30.01416	-82.55916
Prison Cemetery	30.05977	-82.199
Saint John Cemetery	29.99749	-82.53916
Sapp Cemetery	30.0526	-82.2286
Varnes Cemetery	30.03523	-82.32233

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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