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Welcome to Union City ...

Union City is located in Atchison County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Union City, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1871.

Time Zone: Union City lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Union City: 660

Communities Also Named Union City ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Missouri communities named Union City: This one is located in Atchison County and the other is located in Stone County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 22 communities that are also named Union City - they are located in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas (6), Kentucky (2), Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Union City.

Adding Union City to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Union City in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Union City was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Union City post office opened in 1871.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Union City.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Atchison, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/