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Goodway, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Frisco City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36445. The Survey maps it on the Uriah East quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Goodway within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

62 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Goodway between 1994 and 2019, burning about 684 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Goodway: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Goodway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Goodway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hyatt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Repton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St. Regis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodway in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindGoodway$20,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew several trees down and turned over a travel trailer near Goodway.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGoodway$3,000Local law enforcement reported very high winds, small hail, and several trees blown down in and around the community as strong thunderstorms moved through the area.
June 2023Flash FloodGoodway-Heavy rain caused water to overflow roadway on Highway 21S.
May 1998HailGoodway-Golfball size hail fell near the community.
June 2023HailGoodway-no account filed
March 2003HailGoodway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Megargel3.0 miles9
Uriah4.6 miles8
Jeddo4.7 miles8
Halls Crossroads6.7 miles8
Frisco City6.8 miles9
Palmers Crossroads7.0 miles8
Excel7.7 miles8
Manistee8.1 miles9

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 GoodwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5583641The 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 119153. 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.