Goshen, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Goshen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72703. It lies near Gilliam Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle. 2,102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.
On record in Goshen
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Tisdale Store-Goshen Post Officelisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresGoshen grew from 1,071 to 2,102 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,071 | |
| 2020 | 2,102 | +1,031 (+96%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Eureka Springs quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Eureka Springs quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Goshen between 1998 and 2013, burning about 115 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goshen in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 8 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Lightning | Goshen | $150,000 | Lightning struck two homes causing fires. Minor damage occurred with one of the homes while major damage occurred with the second home. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Goshen | $100,000 | Tennis ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Goshen | $100,000 | Heavy rain caused 67 roads and bridges to be closed across the county. Water rescues from vehicles also had to be performed. About 20 people had to evacuate their homes at West Fork, Elkins and Goshen as they became flooded as well. |
| April 2022 | Flash Flood | Goshen | $50,000 | Portions of several roads were flooded, and flood water entered a business. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Goshen | $25,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several tree limbs and trees. A few limbs fell on houses but no major structural damage was found. One limb fell on a car causing some damage.The fallen limbs and trees caused some power lines to be knocked down causing a few power outages. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb. The tree limb fell on a barn causing damage to its roof. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen | - | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen | - | Several large tree limbs were broken by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees. |
| January 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down across Highway 45. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goshen | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Goshen | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Goshen | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Goshen | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Goshen | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Goshen | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Goshen | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habberton | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Mayfield | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Sydenham (historical) | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Rochelle Riviera | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Wyman | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Tuttle | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Beav-O-Rama | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| McGuire (historical) | 5.2 miles | 18 |
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 Goshen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2564384 | The 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 57835. 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.









