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Shady Grove, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southwest Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75050. The Survey maps it on the Euless quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

30 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 2009 and 2020, burning about 35 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
11 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePR 3484
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINITY
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 360
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service360
28 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 360
27 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 360
17 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceASSIST BIG SANDY
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE HWY 360

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Shady Grove: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dallas Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Grand Prairie PitSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Vermiculite PlantPerliteProducer
Barton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Crouch Sand and Gravel Co OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
G and G Sand and Gravel OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hatton Sumner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Grove in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
June 2012HailShady Grove$1,000,000Ping pong ball sized hail was reported near Highway 161 and Shady Grove Rd in Grapevine.
June 2018HailShady Grove$50,000A social media report indicated golf ball sized hail just south of DFW Airport.
May 2015Flash FloodShady Grove$25,000Broadcast media reported that the first floor of an apartment complex near 1000 South Belt Line Rd was flooded and residents were being evacuated.
January 2025Flash FloodShady Grove-Trinity Blvd at Bear Creek became flooded in Shady Grove and was closed. A Grand Prairie alert rain gauge on the bridge measured 4.30 inches of rain in a short amount of time.
June 2023HailShady Grove-Report was received via mPING.
June 2023HailShady Grove-Half dollar size hail was reported in Irving near the intersection of Shady Grove Road and Story Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindShady Grove-A trained spotter reported tree limbs down approximately 4 miles north-northwest of the city of Grand Prairie, TX.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Sowers2.3 miles24
Irving3.9 miles24
Grand Prairie4.1 miles21
Estelle4.4 miles21
Lakeland Heights5.9 miles21
Eagle Ford6.5 miles24
Lakeview6.7 miles21
Arcadia Park6.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1346929. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.