Union Township
Verified Whitley County context and population for Union Township.
Union Township is an Indiana township in Whitley County. STATS Indiana reports 2,725 residents for July 1, 2025, compared with 2,643 in its July 1, 2020 estimate. That is an increase of 82, or 3.1%, within the same vintage series. The figures are Census Bureau estimates, not permanent counts.
Documented local context
The Indiana State Library directory states that Miami leader Little Turtle was born in what is now Union Township. The county services directory separately names a Union Township Fire Department.
Geographic and record context
The wording “what is now” is important: it describes a modern geographic association, not a county jurisdiction that existed at the time of birth. This site preserves that attribution and does not add a birthplace date, village name, or biography beyond the cited state source.
Evidence available for Union Township
County-level deeds, assessments, taxes, court files, and vital records are generally filed in Columbia City even when an event or parcel concerns Union Township. The State Library map catalog supplies dated landowner, road, postal-route, atlas, and historical-map layers; a recorded deed or plat remains the source for a legal boundary.
Use the place name precisely
A Union Township citation should preserve the wording on the source, then add Whitley County, Indiana, and the event date. Land research should retain township, range, section, subdivision, lot, and legal description when supplied. Mailing address, incorporated place, civil township, fire-service area, taxing district, and filing office can overlap without being identical.
Continue the Union Township record
For Union Township, compare the county history, maps timeline, Recorder guide, and 2025 estimate population table.