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Shady Grove, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Checotah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74426. The Survey maps it on the Warner NW quadrangle. 487 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Shady Grove within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 2006 and 2012, burning about 4,300 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use197 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSTRETCH
16 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHONEY SPRINGS
1 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined420 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryMCINTOSH ONE
21 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryRENTIESVILLE FIRE
27 May 2012Debris and open burning12 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20075
18 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,250 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryDIRTY CREEK FIRE
15 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined115 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeRATTLESNAKE MOUNTAINS
23 March 2011Arson/incendiarism65 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Grove in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado. 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
November 2015Tornado (EF1)Shady Grove$150,000This tornado damaged the roofs of several homes, destroyed a chicken house, destroyed a number of outbuildings, and snapped or uprooted trees. Based on this damage, estimated maximum wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindShady Grove$20,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew the roof from a barn, and blew down power poles.
April 2025HailShady Grove$20,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
January 2023HailShady Grove$15,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
March 2015HailShady Grove$5,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindShady Grove-Amateur radio operators measured thunderstorm wind gusts to 62 mph east of Checotah.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindShady Grove-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted several trees.
March 1999Tornado (F0)Shady Grove-The same parent thunderstorm that spawned the earlier tornado further west in McIntosh County again spawned a brief tornado touchdown about three miles west of Warner in far eastern McIntosh County. No damage was reported with this touchdown.

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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
Rentiesville4.6 miles19
Checotah5.9 miles15
Duchess Landing7.0 miles15
Onapa9.4 miles15
Texanna10.1 miles15
Brush Hill12.3 miles16
Richardsville14.1 miles16
Fame15.2 miles15

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 Q3476472The 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 1100827. 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.