Shady Grove, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Jack census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36323. It stands on Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bluff Springs quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Bluff Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 420 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
17 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-1
5 August 2020	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200805-2
4 August 2015	Debris and open burning	2.7 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150804-001
30 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 342, AL
24 June 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	3066 CO RD 305, AL
22 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

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

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Coffee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lowry Mill	3.1 miles	11
Lee	3.2 miles	8
Arcus	3.4 miles	11
Bluff Springs	3.6 miles	8
Zoar	3.7 miles	8
Jack	4.0 miles	8
Victoria	5.3 miles	11
Newby	5.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 126585. 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.