New Goshen, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47885. The Survey maps it on the New Goshen quadrangle. 402 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.
On record in New 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
New Goshen District No. 2 Schoollisted 2016
Population over time
2 figuresNew Goshen grew from 390 to 402 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 | 390 | |
| 2020 | 402 | +12 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1950 USGS New Goshen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS New Goshen quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of New Goshen between 2002 and 2003, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 November 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Goshen: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Goshen in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Goshen | $4,000 | Power poles were knocked down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | New Goshen | $2,000 | Excessive rainfall flooded the road at SR 63 and US 150. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Goshen | $1,000 | Trees and power lines downed. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Goshen | - | A damaging thunderstorm wind gust was estimated in New Goshen. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West New Goshen | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Pine Ridge | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Shirkieville | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Tecumseh | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Shepardsville | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Libertyville | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Harrison | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Sandford | 4.4 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 New Goshen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q530879 | 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 440049. 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.






