Welcome to Shady Grove ...
So far, we found very little information about Shady Grove. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Shady Grove to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Shady Grove - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Shady Grove, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Shady Grove , we believe that it would have been located within present day Jasper County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Shady Grove, you might consider that their post office opened in 1860.
A typical abbreviation for Shady Grove: Shady Grv.
Time Zone: The area where Shady Grove was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
The location where Shady Grove once stood is in the (601) & (769)<3> area codes.
Communities Also Named Shady Grove ...
While we believe that this Shady Grove is located in Jasper County, we know of another 8 Mississippi communities named Shady Grove. Those communities are located in the following counties: Attala, Carroll, Copiah, Jones, Pontotoc, Smith, Tippah and Webster County.
Beyond Mississippi, there are 106 communities that are also named Shady Grove - they are located in Alabama (8), Arkansas (12), Delaware, Florida (2), Georgia (8), Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky (4), Louisiana (3), Maryland, Missouri (4), New Mexico, North Carolina (2), Ohio, Oklahoma (4), Pennsylvania, South Carolina (4), Tennessee (17), Texas (14), Utah, Virginia (7) and West Virginia.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Shady Grove.
Adding Shady Grove to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Shady Grove in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.
From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Shady Grove was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the Shady Grove post office opened in 1860.
We also found Shady Grove in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Shady Grove.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Shady Grove, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Jasper, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | Area code (769) is an overlay for area code (601). |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |