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Shady Grove, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tyler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75706. The Survey maps it on the Tyler North quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Shady Grove within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

402 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,642 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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 burning226
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism27
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural3

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
9 September 2005Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 231
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6298
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINONA GRASS FIRE I20 MM 573
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/WOODS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shady Grove: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
American Clay Forming PlantClayProducer
East Tyler Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceAnhydrite, Calcite, Halite
Bell Dredge & PitSilicaProducer
Stricklin Dredge & PitSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Grove in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2023HailShady Grove-Golf ball size hail reported 7 miles northeast of Tyler.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindShady Grove-Several trees were snapped and downed across Lavender Road near I-20.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindShady Grove-Trees were downed near I-20 between Highway 69 and Highway 14, near Lavender Road.
April 2019Flash FloodShady Grove-Farm to Market Road 14 at Interstate 20 was closed due to flooding.
April 2008HailShady Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Pine Springs3.1 miles15
Sand Flat3.1 miles15
Bostick3.8 miles15
Swan4.5 miles15
Owentown4.6 miles15
Red Springs6.3 miles12
Tyler6.3 miles16
Thedford6.7 miles15

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 GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076578The 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 1346928. 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.