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Goddard, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Bear Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35543. It lies near Ikes Knob. The Survey maps it on the Haleyville West quadrangle.

Goddard within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

136 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Goddard between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,349 acres in total. None started naturally. 66 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
Arson/incendiarism66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
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
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200921-3
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goddard in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 hail, 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGoddard-Several trees were downed in the western part of Haleyville in Marion County.
March 2017HailGoddard-Quarter size hail along Highway 241 near the town of Bear Creek.
May 2012HailGoddard-no account filed
March 2011HailGoddard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Lumbull1.5 miles14
Bear Creek2.0 miles14
Allens Factory2.5 miles14
South Haleyville4.4 miles12
Fairview4.6 miles14
Tessner4.6 miles14
Thornhill6.4 miles12
Hackleburg7.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156411. 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.

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.