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Shady Grove, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gainesville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76240. The Survey maps it on the Collinsville quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

119 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 2005 and 2018, burning about 841 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking5

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH PILE
1 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/HAY FIRE
8 August 2011Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 222
3 August 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR219
3 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM678

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke 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
Lake Kiowa2.2 miles13
Woodbine3.8 miles13
Burns City5.1 miles13
Oak Ridge6.6 miles13
Mountain Springs7.1 miles9
Road Runner8.2 miles9
Bloomfield8.8 miles9
Cook8.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380522. 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.