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Shady Grove, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sneads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32442. The Survey maps it on the Sneads quadrangle. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Shady Grove within Jackson County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shady Grove, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Shady Grove, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 794 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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 burning48
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-02-1052
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use57 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBLOUNT ROAD (32)
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEWIS LANE (32)
24 September 2019Debris and open burning73 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBLUEBERRY DRIVE (32)
20 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEWER PLANT (32)
20 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKAVA DR (32)
19 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Ls. ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Ls. ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Ocheesee Gardens1.4 miles13
Hyhappo (historical)2.5 miles12
Yamassee (historical)2.6 miles13
Osochi (historical)2.8 miles13
Inwood3.5 miles13
Grand Ridge4.3 miles13
Sinai4.6 miles13
Tamathli (historical)5.3 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Shady GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21020965The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295614. 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.