Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

• That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
• We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
• On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Union (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Union. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Union is located in Dawson County.

To see how the shape of Texas' counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawson County: Andrews, Borden, Gaines, Howard, Lynn, Martin & Terry.

Below are the counties that are near Union. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Union:

• Dawson County     (The home county of Union)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Union, with the one closest to Union listed first.
  • Lamesa
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamesa
    • Lamesa is located in Dawson County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,131 people
    • Lamesa has also been known as:
    • La Mesa
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lamesa <1>
  • Los Ybanez
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Los Ybanez have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ybanez
    • Los Ybanez is located in Dawson County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
  • Sparenberg
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparenberg
    • Sparenberg is located in Dawson County
  • Welch
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Welch have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welch
    • Welch is located in Dawson County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Welch <1>
  • Ackerly
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ackerly have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ackerly
    • Ackerly is located in Dawson County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 234 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ackerly <1>
  • O'Donnell
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for O'Donnell have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Donnell
    • O'Donnell is located in Dawson County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 847 people
• Gaines County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Union, with the one closest to Union listed first.
  • White City ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
    • White City is located in Gaines County
  • Loop
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loop
    • Loop is located in Gaines County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loop <1>
• Howard County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Union, with the one closest to Union listed first.
  • Vealmoor
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vealmoor
    • Vealmoor is located in Howard County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vealmoor <1>
  • Knott
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Knott have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knott
    • Knott is located in Howard County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Knott <1>
• Martin County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Union, with the one closest to Union listed first.
  • Tarzan
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tarzan have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarzan
    • Tarzan is located in Martin County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tarzan <1>
  • Lenorah
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lenorah have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenorah
    • Lenorah is located in Martin County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lenorah <1>

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Union, see our County-by-County Page for Union.

Newspapers Published in Union ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Union.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Union, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Union.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Union:

• Websites specific to Texas
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //www.tsl.texas.gov/

• Pages specific to Dawson County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Gaines County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Howard County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Martin County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Texas
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Texas
  • Cemeteries of Dawson County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Texas
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Texas
  • Cemeteries of Dawson County

Cemeteries Near Union ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Union.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Union covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Union, with the one closest to Union listed first.

• Fairview Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
• Midway Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Midway Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Midway Cemetery
• Pride Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pride Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pride Cemetery
• Fairhaven Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairhaven Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairhaven Cemetery
• ODonnell Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the ODonnell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the ODonnell Cemetery
• Plain View Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plain View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plain View Cemetery
• Union Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
• Knott Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Knott Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Knott Cemetery

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Union. See our List of 1890's Communities around Union.

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Union. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/