BlockShady Grove, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rusk census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75785. The Survey maps it on the Atoy quadrangle. It stands 322 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1943 USGS Rusk quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Rusk quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Atoy quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
222 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,848 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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 | 147 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 494 |
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DON PARSONS |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 256 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1218 FIRE |
| 7 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 207 |
| 7 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 486 |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 214 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Q22076576 | 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 1379059. 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.