Shady Grove, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Graysville-Adamsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35005. It stands on Cane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sylvan Springs quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1935 USGS Port Birmingham quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Port Birmingham quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Sylvan Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Sylvan Springs quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

265 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1994 and 2019, burning about 5,004 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 119 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/incendiarism	119
Debris and open burning	78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-14
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-27
27 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay. 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
	Jef 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
	Waste Pond - Bessie Mine	Aluminum	Occurrence	Illite, Kaolinite

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Grays Gardens	1.4 miles	28
Union Grove	1.5 miles	28
Longview Estates	1.6 miles	28
Sherwood Hills	2.2 miles	28
Graysville	2.5 miles	28
Adamsville	2.6 miles	28
Mulga Mine	2.6 miles	28
Westwood Garden Estates	2.8 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 126587. 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.