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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.

Goessel within Marion County

Population over time

4 figures

Goessel 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.

YearPeople Change
1951261
2000565
2010539-26 (-5%)
2020556+17 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

12 since 2015

Regional 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
14 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service31
22 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use29 acresKansas Forest Service24
29 May 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service24
10 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service43
7 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service6
5 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service4
29 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service12
28 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service11

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

45 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019HailGoessel$25,000A 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 2010FloodGoessel$20,000Numerous 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 2009Thunderstorm WindGoessel$18,000The winds caused damage to a barn and nearby trees.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGoessel$10,000Several 6 to 9 inch tree limbs were blown down and several powerlines as well.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindGoessel$500Some small tree limbs were downed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindGoessel$400A trained spotter reported tree branches blown down, and leaves and walnuts blown out of the trees.
July 2019Flash FloodGoessel$100Goessel 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 2018FloodGoessel$100Water was reported over the road at 90th and Meridian street.
June 2009Flash FloodGoessel$100Water was reported over 120th Street.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGoessel-Tree branches around 2 to 5 inches in diameter were downed in town.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindGoessel-Two to three-inch diameter tree limbs were knocked down. Report relayed via social media.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGoessel-Estimated wind gust of 65 mph took off a roof to a greenhouse and damaged a shed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGoessel-The fire department relayed to emergency management that there were wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGoessel-Measured wind gust.
May 2021Heavy RainGoessel-This was a 24 hour rainfall report of 4.14 inches at Cocorahs station KS-MN-29 Newton 12.6 N.
June 2021Flash FloodGoessel-Water was entering several homes and businesses on Main Street in the city.
June 2021HailGoessel-Hail was reported at the intersection of Kansas Highway 15 and 90th Street.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGoessel-A few stop signs were blown down as well as one to two inch diameter branches.
September 2019HailGoessel-This was a delayed report from a CO-OP observer.
June 2015Heavy RainGoessel-The observer reported 4.39 inches of rain the previous 24 hours.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGoessel-Measured wind gust at the school weather lab.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGoessel-Measured gust at the school weather lab site.
September 2014Heavy RainGoessel-A COOP observer reported 3.77 inches of rainfall.
August 2011HailGoessel-Up to the size of nickels.
April 2009FloodGoessel-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 2009Thunderstorm WindGoessel-Wind measured by KSN-TV weatherlab network.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindGoessel-KSN Weatherlab.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Goessel-Occurred in open country.
March 2001HailGoessel-"Greater than 3/4 inch."
March 2026HailGoessel-no account filed
May 2022HailGoessel-no account filed
May 2020HailGoessel-no account filed
May 2020HailGoessel-no account filed
May 2020HailGoessel-no account filed
October 2016HailGoessel-no account filed
July 2015HailGoessel-no account filed
July 2015HailGoessel-no account filed
June 2015HailGoessel-no account filed
April 2008HailGoessel-no account filed
April 2008HailGoessel-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGoessel-no account filed
June 2001HailGoessel-no account filed
May 1998HailGoessel-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGoessel-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGoessel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Lehigh9.1 miles15
Hillsboro10.6 miles15
Waldeck12.7 miles15
Peabody13.9 miles15
Canada14.6 miles15
Aulne14.6 miles15
Eastshore17.3 miles15
Durham17.7 miles15

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 GoesselAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229058The 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.