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Shady Grove, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72058. It stands on Clifton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenbrier quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Faulkner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

75 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,028 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulkner County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shady Grove: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkClayPast Producer
Mc Ray QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Grove in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
September 2020Tornado (EF0)Shady Grove-Video evidence shows a tornado southwest of the Shady Grove|community off of State Hwy 285. Ground survey information shows|this EF0 tornado tracked northeast across that highway, causing some|damage to trees. This tornado lifted shortly after crossing|Burkett Flat Road, with additional tree damage observed.
March 2017Funnel CloudShady Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
Bono1.8 miles13
Wooster2.1 miles11
Pleasant Valley3.8 miles11
Republican4.3 miles13
Greenbrier4.5 miles11
Springhill5.1 miles11
Linder6.0 miles11
Old Linder (historical)6.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78922. 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.