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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.

Goshen within Washington County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Goshen 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,071
20202,102+1,031 (+96%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

18 since 1998

Regional 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012LightningGoshen$150,000Lightning struck two homes causing fires. Minor damage occurred with one of the homes while major damage occurred with the second home.
April 2026HailGoshen$100,000Tennis ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
April 2008Flash FloodGoshen$100,000Heavy 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 2022Flash FloodGoshen$50,000Portions of several roads were flooded, and flood water entered a business.
April 2011HailGoshen$25,000no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindGoshen$10,000Thunderstorm 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 2004Thunderstorm WindGoshen$2,000Thunderstorm 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 2022Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Several large tree limbs were broken by strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down across Highway 45.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb.
May 2024HailGoshen-no account filed
April 2015HailGoshen-no account filed
April 2011HailGoshen-no account filed
April 2004HailGoshen-no account filed
October 2001HailGoshen-no account filed
May 1995HailGoshen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Habberton3.3 miles18
Mayfield3.4 miles14
Sydenham (historical)3.7 miles18
Rochelle Riviera3.9 miles19
Wyman4.5 miles18
Tuttle4.8 miles14
Beav-O-Rama4.8 miles19
McGuire (historical)5.2 miles18

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 Q2564384The 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.