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Shady Grove, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dodd City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75492. The Survey maps it on the Dodd City quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

152 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 2005 and 2019, burning about 4,098 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3045
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURGESS FIRE
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. 1743 FIRE
25 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 82
14 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AIDE
14 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 56 @ CR 2935

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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
Prairie Point1.8 miles6
Burnett1.8 miles6
Hail2.5 miles6
Flag Springs2.7 miles6
Dodd City2.8 miles6
Clutter Point2.9 miles6
Windom3.5 miles12
Bartley Woods3.6 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380521. 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.