Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Uniontown, KS

Uniontown is a small city in Bourbon County, in southeastern Kansas, located along the Marmaton River, and it was incorporated in 1895.

Uniontown began in the 1850s under the name Turkey Creek, with a post office established on February 12, 1858; the town was moved to its present site around 1865 and renamed Uniontown on March 10, 1873, in honor of its early settlers' loyalty to the Union during the Civil War.

As of the 2020 census, Uniontown had a population of 293 — coincidentally the exact same population recorded in the 1900 census — while the 2010 census counted 272 people in 120 households.

Uniontown boomed when the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad arrived in 1880, growing to five general stores, two hotels, a lumber yard and other businesses, and it was served through the twentieth century by the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

Uniontown's population peaked at 371 in 1980, and the whole city covers only about 0.22 square miles, giving it a density of roughly 1,400 people per square mile.

Uniontown is served by Uniontown USD 235, and in 1999 four students at Uniontown High School started the 'Life in a Jar' project honoring Irena Sendler, the Polish humanitarian who rescued more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto — a school project that spread internationally and brought a little-known story of heroism to worldwide attention.

Uniontown has a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers and mild to cool winters.

Bourbon County, whose seat is Fort Scott and which had 14,360 residents in the 2020 census, is known for its Civil War history, and Uniontown is one of its six small incorporated cities.