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Goshen, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Goshen-Shady Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36035. It stands on Elam Branch. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle. 269 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Goshen within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Goshen grew from 266 to 269 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010266
2020269+3 (+1%)

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

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Goshen between 1994 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
18 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1996Recreation and ceremony2.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150810-003
1 July 2020Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200701-1
5 June 2007Natural7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Goshen: 33 unknowns, 9 occurrences, 7 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Joe West ProspectIronProspect
O D Warren ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goshen in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
December 2012Tornado (EF2)Goshen2 hurtAn EF-2 tornado touched down just inside the county line on Brantley Road near an open field causing only minor tree damage. It traveled northeast to County Road (CR) 2219, where it caused significant damage to 2 chicken barns, a home and a small barn before crossing CR 2201. As it continued to the northeast, the tornado traveled parallel to the Conecuh River on CR 2214 for more than two miles, causing widespread damage with hundreds of trees snapped or uprooted and damaging several homes. As it passed CR 11, a single-wide manufactured home had its anchors ripped out of the ground and rolled 75 yards into a wooded area, while leaving the wooden post porch intact. The home fell apart as it rolled, leaving a trail of debris that lead into the woods, where the frame split in two and was wrapped around the trees. Two occupants were injured and required medical attention. The tornado continued over mainly fields and wooded areas, crossing Hwy 29 just west of CR 1165. The tornado crossed the Conecuh River and intensified as it approached the River Ridge Subdivision on CR 1101. Numerous large tall trees were uprooted, scores of pines were snapped, and a portion of the wall of a brick home collapsed causing major damage. From there, it continued northeast to the Brantley Woods Motor Home Park just north of CR 1148 on the west side of US Hwy 231, between the Troy Airport and the Conecuh River. A large swath of softwood trees were mowed down about 20 feet off the ground, and 3 single-wide manufactured homes were destroyed. One of the homes had its anchors ripped out of the ground and begin to roll, but because the park was heavily wooded, it was stopped from tumbling over onto and crushing the next home. From there, the tornado continued over marshy low lands and forested areas for another 3 miles before lifting at CR 103 north of Needmore Road.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGoshen$11,000Numerous trees were blown down from near Goshen to near Troy.
March 2003HailGoshen$8,000Penny to golf ball size hail pounded areas in and around Goshen. Several locations reported the hail covering the ground. One mobile home suffered minor damage.
July 2005Flash FloodGoshen$2,000Heavy rain caused several roads to become covered with water in Goshen. The roads were temporarily impassable.
March 2003HailGoshen$2,000Marble to quarter size hail fell from Goshen to Brundidge. A few locations reported the hail covering the ground.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGoshen$1,000A few trees were blown down in the Goshen community.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Trees were downed around Goshen, and at least one home and one outbuilding sustained minor roof/siding damage. An open-air metal building at the Goshen High School baseball field was destroyed as well, with most of the building collapsed and mangled. Most of the damage was concentrated along Eagle Cir and Alabama St.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Several trees uprooted in the Goshen area.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGoshen-A long-lived bow echo uprooted numerous trees in Goshen.
June 2023HailGoshen-Half-dollar size hail reported in Goshen.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Several trees uprooted and blocking roadways in the town of Goshen.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Several trees uprooted in the town of Goshen.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Thunderstorms organized into a line just west of Pike County. The reflectivity gradient on these storms sharpened quickly, with a significant and persistent straight-line wind signature. A large swath of straight-line wind damage occurred across the southern portions of Pike County. The damage consisted mainly of snapped and uprooted trees, with the most significant damage along a stretch from Goshen to Brundidge. The damage swath continued into southern Barbour County.
April 2019Tornado (EF0)Goshen-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in far western Pike County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 70 mph. ||The tornado initially touched down just west of Jones Bridge Road in Crenshaw County.|The tornado crossed into Pike County just north of Greenville Avenue and lifted west of the town of Goshen. Damage in Pike County consisted mostly of uprooted trees and a gas station suffered minor damage.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Large trees down near Goshen High School.
March 2003HailGoshen-Three quarter inch diameter size hail was observed in the Goshen area.
September 1998Funnel CloudGoshen-Funnel cloud was reported an unspecified distance west of Goshen.
March 2016HailGoshen-no account filed
May 2012HailGoshen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Hallsville1.7 miles8
Dogwood Acres3.4 miles8
Little Oak3.5 miles8
Thomas Crossroad3.7 miles7
Sanders Hill4.5 miles8
Henderson4.6 miles8
Elam-Rodgers4.6 miles8
Pleasant Ridge5.3 miles8

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 GoshenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66459The 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 119184. 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.