Shady Grove, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. It stands on East Fork White Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fodice quadrangle.

Shady Grove within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Fodice quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Fodice quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,361 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 6 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	38
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 530
9 September 1993	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 1993	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 155
23 September 1992	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hopewell	2.6 miles	10
Plainview	3.4 miles	11
Fodice	4.4 miles	11
Arbor	4.4 miles	10
Center Grove	5.6 miles	9
Berea	7.0 miles	10
Holly	7.2 miles	11
Smith Grove	7.3 miles	9

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 Q7460918	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 1382742. 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.