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BOUNDARY · Marshall County ground, never claimed
The two closest registered fields to Union Township both stand south of its line, in another county. The ground immediately south of Union Township is Marshall County (its German and North Townships), and the fields sited there are boundary items however close they are. Birkey Private Airport, 3II8 — the closest registered field to the township: the federal record as republished gives it at 41.4422686, −86.2611164 (estimated) — south of the test box's southern edge — "6 miles W of BREMEN, IN," private use, permission required prior to landing, activated April 1983, elevation 796 feet, runway 18/36 of 1,650 by 50 feet, turf; ownership private, the owner of record as the federal record itself publishes the name, Robert N. Birkey; 6.00 miles straight-line from the Lakeville town point (computed, labelled). Sherk Field, II38 — at 41.42643, −86.31640, "2 miles S of LAPAZ, IN," in the federal data display: "Airport Status: Operational," private use only, runway 10/28 of 1,600 by 75 feet, turf; 7.36 miles straight-line southwest of the town point (computed). No activation date for Sherk was reached in any carrier opened (gap G-AIR-4). A caution prints here because the state's own files invite the swap: Sherk's II38 is not Stewarts Green Acres' IN38 — the identifiers differ by one character and name different fields in different counties, this one Marshall County's, the other Liberty Township's in the sister build; neither is Union Township's. Two more of the southern cluster stand at directory strength, pointer size: Ames Field, 46IN (Plymouth postal area; 2,200 feet of turf in the directory line; no activation date reached, gap G-AIR-4) and Berger Airport, II62 (Plymouth ground). The cluster's remaining names — a county heliport at Plymouth, fields at Bourbon, Argos, Bremen and Culver — are context at name strength only: Marshall County's ground, other builds' material when their turns come.
Principal sources: the FAA record for 3II8 as republished by AirNav (record effective 22 January 2026, opened first-hand); the FAA NFDC display for II38 (chart data valid 29 October – 26 November 2026); directory carriers for 46IN and II62 (strengths labelled).