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Shady Grove, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Perry North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32331. The Survey maps it on the Shady Grove quadrangle. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Shady Grove within Taylor County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 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 1979
Topographic sheet of Shady Grove, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. 15 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use28
Natural15
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMCLEOD ROAD (62)
9 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOCALA (40)
21 August 2014Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceECONIFINA PRESERVE (62)
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Grove in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 wildfire. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1994Tornado (F1)Shady Grove2 hurt, $50,000A tornado blew down trees and heavily damaged a mobile home. A family took refuge under a mattress but one child was severely injured.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindShady Grove$2,000Power lines were blown down along Highway 221 in northern Taylor county.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindShady Grove-Trees were blown down on Alton Wentworth Road.
April 2012HailShady Grove-Penny to nickel sized hail was reported on Highway 221.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindShady Grove-A few trees were down across the northern part of the county.
March 2005HailShady Grove-Golfball size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
June 2000WildfireShady Grove-200 acres scorched near San Pedro Bay on County Road 14. Several homes were threatened. Reported by the Taylor County EMA.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Iddo5.0 miles10
Eridu6.2 miles10
Boyd7.0 miles8
Secotan7.7 miles10
Covington10.6 miles10
Perry12.1 miles9
Roach13.1 miles10
Cabbage Grove13.9 miles9

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 Q21020966The 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 290897. 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.

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.