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Shady Grove, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Diboll census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75941. The Survey maps it on the Diboll quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 967 acres in total. 3 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 September 1993Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7109
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 653
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 663
29 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA 14:12
22 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 252

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Diboll1.6 miles11
Prairie Grove1.9 miles13
Rutland2.3 miles11
Burke3.6 miles11
Renova (historical)4.1 miles11
Beulah4.4 miles13
Bald Hill6.9 miles13
Blix8.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382743. 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.