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Shady Grove, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Crittenden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42064. The Survey maps it on the Shady Grove quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Shady Grove within Crittenden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1997 and 2014, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning2
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
4 August 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFARMERSVILLE ROAD
27 August 2012Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE PI
26 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRESWELL H
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFARMERSVILLE RD.
1 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 November 1997Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Grove in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindShady Grove-no account filed
May 1995HailShady Grove-no account filed
February 1993HailShady Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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
Deanwood3.0 miles14
Blackburn (historical)3.8 miles14
Fishtrap4.1 miles13
Piney4.3 miles13
Mount Olivet (historical)5.3 miles12
Cave Springs (historical)5.9 miles13
Tribune6.0 miles14
Piney Fork7.3 miles20

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 Q7460908The 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 503209. 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.