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Goshen, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. It stands on Nances Creek. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Goshen within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

338 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Goshen (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 10,044 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 182 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/incendiarism182
Debris and open burning101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Smoking2

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 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism36 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOFF HWY 278, AL
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-11
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160904-4
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Arson/incendiarism33 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Goshen (historical): 12 prospects, 12 occurrences, 10 unknowns, 8 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Cobalt, Manganese. 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
Cowan ProspectManganese, IronProspect1949
DupontAluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1897
Harbour and Thompson ProspectsNickel, Cobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Industrial Filler Co. MineSilicaPast ProducerQuartz
Johnson ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Stewart MineClayProducer
Greer ProspectGoldOccurrence1881
Griffin ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Harbour PropertyCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Thompson PropertyCobalt, ManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Ladiga2.0 miles17
Old Goshen Center (historical)2.4 miles17
Piedmont2.4 miles17
Greenwood3.5 miles17
Philadelphia3.8 miles17
Vigo4.2 miles17
Dailey (historical)4.7 miles17
Collins (historical)4.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 162183. 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.