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Goff, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66428. The Survey maps it on the Goff quadrangle. 106 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,227 feet above sea level.

Goff within Nemaha County

Population over time

2 figures

Goff fell from 126 to 106 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
2010126
2020106-20 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

40 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Goff between 2000 and 2020, burning about 2,470 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning19
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
18 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service525
13 September 2017Debris and open burning37 acresNemaha County399
4 August 2017Debris and open burning160 acresNemaha County397
2 August 2017Debris and open burning160 acresNemaha County396
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service222
9 April 2017Debris and open burning72 acresNemaha County385
6 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined144 acresKansas Forest Service347
4 April 2016Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service4042016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nemaha County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goff in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 13 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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 2010FloodGoff-Flooding still reported at the intersection of County Road 56 and W Road.
April 2000Tornado (F0)Goff-A cold air funnel made a brief touchdown near Goff.
June 2011HailGoff-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindGoff-no account filed
March 2006HailGoff-no account filed
April 2006HailGoff-no account filed
April 2006HailGoff-no account filed
June 2005HailGoff-no account filed
June 2005HailGoff-no account filed
June 2005HailGoff-no account filed
September 2005HailGoff-no account filed
August 2004HailGoff-no account filed
August 2004HailGoff-no account filed
April 2002HailGoff-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindGoff-no account filed
April 2001HailGoff-no account filed
August 1997HailGoff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nemaha 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
Bancroft4.2 miles17
Corning5.2 miles14
Kelly6.3 miles14
Wetmore6.7 miles17
Ontario7.2 miles17
America City8.2 miles14
Granada8.3 miles17
Woodlawn9.0 miles17

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 GoffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1824498The 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 473225. 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.