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Goshen, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lincolnton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30817. It stands on Goshen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Metasville quadrangle.

Goshen within Lincoln 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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Goshen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 624 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
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
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LINCOLN-003
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LINCOLN-004
16 September 2010Debris and open burning5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LINCOLN-002
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Debris and open burning31 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Goshen: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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
Piedmont Manganese Belt, Ga-ScManganesePast Producer1845, 1918
Sales & Lamar MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goshen in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2015Flash FloodGoshen$35,000Sheriff reported flash flooding along Reed creek with 2-4 feet of water closing roads and washing out a 16 inch culvert.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindGoshen$12,000Dispatch reported trees down along Hwy 79 near Tabernacle Church Road and area west of there.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGoshen$3,000Emergency Manager reported trees down in the Goshen area.
June 2015Flash FloodGoshen$2,000Sheriff reported flash flooding on Elberton Highway closing the road.
June 2015Flash FloodGoshen$2,000Sheriff reported flooding at the intersection of Augusta Hwy and Old Petersburg Road.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindGoshen$2,000DOT reported a few trees down on Savannah Scenic Way North.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindGoshen-Lincoln county dispatch reported trees down along Hwy 79.
April 2017HailGoshen-Lincoln Co EM reported golf ball size hail from Goshen northward to the county line.
May 2012HailGoshen-Public reported nickel size hail that covered the ground off of Tabernacle Church Road.
November 2002Tornado (F0)Goshen-A strong F0 took down trees about 1 mile east of Chennault in very rural area.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Curry Hill1.9 miles14
Midway2.6 miles14
Honora3.0 miles14
Sybert4.2 miles14
Lincolnton5.2 miles16
Graball5.5 miles14
Chennault5.8 miles14
Lovelace6.0 miles14

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 Q60767686The 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 331841. 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.