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.
Then and now
1954 to 1979The 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 sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Shady Grove quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Perry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
115 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | MCLEOD ROAD (62) |
| 9 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | OCALA (40) |
| 21 August 2014 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ECONIFINA PRESERVE (62) |
| 21 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1994 | Tornado (F1) | Shady Grove | 2 hurt, $50,000 | A tornado blew down trees and heavily damaged a mobile home. A family took refuge under a mattress but one child was severely injured. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shady Grove | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down along Highway 221 in northern Taylor county. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shady Grove | - | Trees were blown down on Alton Wentworth Road. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Shady Grove | - | Penny to nickel sized hail was reported on Highway 221. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shady Grove | - | A few trees were down across the northern part of the county. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Shady Grove | - | Golfball size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter. |
| June 2000 | Wildfire | Shady Grove | - | 200 acres scorched near San Pedro Bay on County Road 14. Several homes were threatened. Reported by the Taylor County EMA. |
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.
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21020966 | The 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.




