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Goodwin, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Goodwin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72340. It stands on Hog Tusk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheatley quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Goodwin within St. Francis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Goodwin between 1997 and 2015, burning about 1,361 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
13 September 1997Debris and open burning19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use250 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2010Arson/incendiarism48 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodwin in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindGoodwin$70,000Straight line winds produced damage to a mobile home roof in Goodwin. Two wood frame homes and a metal shop had roof damage. In addition, a grain bin was blown over. 3 miles north of Palestine, several trees were knocked down, blocking County Road 130. Campers and trampolines were tossed about.
May 2003HailGoodwin$3,000no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Goodwin$100A tornado briefly touched down in Goodwin with some damage reported.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-Straight line winds blew numerous trees down across St. Francis County. A few sheds were damaged as well.

Every storm recorded in St. Francis 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
Blossom1.4 miles15
Wheatley5.0 miles15
Posey5.2 miles15
Four Gums5.2 miles12
Palestine6.7 miles14
Slonikers Mill7.3 miles12
Elcana8.4 miles16
Bryanville8.5 miles16

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 GoodwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5583664The 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 83159. 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.