Goessel, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in West Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67053. The Survey maps it on the Goessel quadrangle. 556 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.
Population over time
4 figuresGoessel grew from 261 to 556 between 1951 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 261 | |
| 2000 | 565 | |
| 2010 | 539 | -26 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 556 | +17 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Newton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Goessel quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Goessel quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Goessel between 2015 and 2018, burning about 148 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 31 |
| 22 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 29 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
| 29 May 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
| 10 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 43 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
| 5 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 4 |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
| 28 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
Storms near this place
45 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goessel in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 18 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Hail | Goessel | $25,000 | A delayed report was received of tennis ball-sized hail that dented vehicles and cracked a windshield. The report was received via Twitter. The time of the event was estimate based on radar. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Goessel | $20,000 | Numerous low water crossings became impassible due to heavy rainfall during the early morning hours. Rainfall amounts ranged from 2.53 inches in Goessel to 4.22 inches in Hillsboro. The flooding caused 42 campsites to close around Marion Reservoir. The flooding also caused a temporary wooden bridge, southwest of Marion, 4 feet wide by 14 feet long, used for pipeline construction, to wash out and be carried downstream into a wooded area. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | $18,000 | The winds caused damage to a barn and nearby trees. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | $10,000 | Several 6 to 9 inch tree limbs were blown down and several powerlines as well. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | $500 | Some small tree limbs were downed. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | $400 | A trained spotter reported tree branches blown down, and leaves and walnuts blown out of the trees. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Goessel | $100 | Goessel Fire department reported helping businesses sandbag around buildings due to high water. Water was reported over the road at 90th and bison near Goessel. |
| October 2018 | Flood | Goessel | $100 | Water was reported over the road at 90th and Meridian street. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Goessel | $100 | Water was reported over 120th Street. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | Tree branches around 2 to 5 inches in diameter were downed in town. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | Two to three-inch diameter tree limbs were knocked down. Report relayed via social media. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | Estimated wind gust of 65 mph took off a roof to a greenhouse and damaged a shed. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | The fire department relayed to emergency management that there were wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | Measured wind gust. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | Goessel | - | This was a 24 hour rainfall report of 4.14 inches at Cocorahs station KS-MN-29 Newton 12.6 N. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Goessel | - | Water was entering several homes and businesses on Main Street in the city. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Goessel | - | Hail was reported at the intersection of Kansas Highway 15 and 90th Street. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | A few stop signs were blown down as well as one to two inch diameter branches. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Goessel | - | This was a delayed report from a CO-OP observer. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Goessel | - | The observer reported 4.39 inches of rain the previous 24 hours. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | Measured wind gust at the school weather lab. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | Measured gust at the school weather lab site. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Goessel | - | A COOP observer reported 3.77 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Goessel | - | Up to the size of nickels. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Goessel | - | Very heavy rainfall from numerous thunderstorms during the afternoon, evening and overnight hours on the 26th produced widespread flooding across much of Marion county. Rainfall rates on the evening of the 26th approached 2 inches per hour at Hillsboro. Numerous rural roads and some city streets remained submerged and consequently closed through early on the 28th. Unfortunately, property and crop damage estimates are unavailable. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | Wind measured by KSN-TV weatherlab network. |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | KSN Weatherlab. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Goessel | - | Occurred in open country. |
| March 2001 | Hail | Goessel | - | "Greater than 3/4 inch." |
| March 2026 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goessel | - | 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.
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 Goessel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229058 | 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 477764. 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.






