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2022 Map of Union City

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Union City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Union City serves as the focal point of this Northwest Tennessee landscape, dominated by the Obion County Courthouse and a dense network of residential streets. The urban center is surrounded by a rural hinterland defined by family-named roads and numerous small burial grounds, including the Unknown Confederate Soldier Cem and City View Cem. This layout reflects a typical southern county seat development, where civic life is concentrated in a primary township while smaller settlements like Woodland Mills and Highland maintain their own distinct identities on the periphery.

Water plays a significant role in the local geography, with the North Fork Obion River cutting through the southern portion and several creeks, such as Hoosier Cr and N Reelfoot Cr, draining the agricultural lands. Genealogists can find significant value in the distribution of family-named landmarks and cemeteries like Mount Zion Cem and Joyner Cem, which indicate long-standing patterns of local habitation and land ownership in Obion County.