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Shady Grove, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72576. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

137 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,608 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Debris and open burning17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shady Grove: 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Joyce Brothers Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lafevers Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Grove in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
October 2009Flash FloodShady Grove$30,000Water rescues were carried out south of Salem.
August 2010Flash FloodShady Grove$1,000Byron Rd. flooded southwest of Salem.
July 2012Heavy RainShady Grove-A thunderstorm dropped 1.5 inches of rain in about 45 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Flint Springs2.4 miles11
Byron3.9 miles11
Wheeling4.1 miles11
Viola4.2 miles11
Salem4.8 miles11
Mount Pleasant5.3 miles11
Fairview6.0 miles11
Mitchell6.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58597. 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.