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Shady Grove, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Millerville-Hollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35072. The Survey maps it on the Bulls Gap quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

163 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,833 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 57 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism57
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning74 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-16
30 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Recreation and ceremony50 acresNational Forests in AlabamaBOULDER
19 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Shady Grove: 6 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron, Clay, Copper, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A S Bell Pyrite DepositSulfurOccurrence
Hatchet Creek Prospect - West MillervilleIron, Copper, SulfurOccurrence1963
Hatchet Creek Prospect MillervilleSulfur, Iron, CopperOccurrence1963
Garrett ProspectCopper, SulfurProspect
Hood-Graves MineGraphitePast Producer
J W Williams ProspectGraphiteOccurrence
Mcghee ProspectCopper, SulfurOccurrence1850
Reams Clay ProspectClayProspect
Simmons Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Grove in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2020FloodShady Grove-Several roads underwater across areas along and north of Highway 9 with 3-5 inches of rainfall reported during the event.
March 2013HailShady Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Roselle2.6 miles23
Glades3.0 miles14
East Mill3.6 miles23
Brownsville3.7 miles23
Cleveland Crossroads4.0 miles12
Carr Mill4.1 miles14
Millerville4.5 miles14
Pinkneyville5.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160581. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.