Shady Grove, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Leighton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35646. It stands on Midway Branch. The Survey maps it on the Town Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Shady Grove within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1936 USGS Town Creek quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Town Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Town Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove (historical) between 1994 and 2017, burning about 885 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	25
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Natural	1

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
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160908-7
7 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160907-3
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	55 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Shady Grove (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Tuscumbia Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Colbert 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
Midway	0.4 miles	15
Bethel	1.8 miles	17
Fosters Mill	2.7 miles	17
Hatton	2.8 miles	17
Section	2.9 miles	15
Underwood Crossroads	4.9 miles	18
Leighton	5.1 miles	19
Cottontown	5.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 133025. 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.