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Goodell, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Avery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50439. The Survey maps it on the Goodell quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,243 feet above sea level.

Goodell within Hancock County

Population over time

2 figures

Goodell grew from 139 to 140 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
2010139
2020140+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Goodell between 2006 and 2017, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
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
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 October 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Goodell: 7 unknowns, 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Echhoff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Greiman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hanson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hunt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcnulty PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nelson Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ruka PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sec 32 Sw4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodell in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2014Flash FloodGoodell$25,000Many streets in the city were flooded. Many others from Garner to Goodell also had flood waters.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGoodell$10,000Trained spotter reported 10 inch diameter tree branch, about 12 feet tall, down along with several smaller branches.
May 2017Flash FloodGoodell$10,000Trained spotter reported that Vail Ave was washed out just south of 140th st.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGoodell$10,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGoodell$3,000A large tree branch was down knocking a wire against a house. It resulted in smoke.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGoodell$2,000Trained spotter reported large tree limbs down all over town.
September 2024HailGoodell-Spotter reported moderate winds with hail up to quarter sized.
May 2018HailGoodell-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
May 2017HailGoodell-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated via radar.
July 2017HailGoodell-Trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail, also estimated winds at 60 mph.
April 2023HailGoodell-no account filed
August 2023HailGoodell-no account filed
August 2013Funnel CloudGoodell-no account filed
August 2008HailGoodell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Klemme5.8 miles7
Kanawha9.4 miles9
Garner12.4 miles7
Duncan13.5 miles7
Denhart13.9 miles9
Hayfield Junction14.6 miles7
Britt15.6 miles7
Stilson16.3 miles7

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 GoodellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q389552The 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 456961. 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.