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Goodrich, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66072. It stands on Landers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parker quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 1910 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Goodrich within Linn County

On record in Goodrich

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

25 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Goodrich between 2012 and 2020, burning about 420 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10

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
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLinn County251
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresKansas Counties1077 AND DINGUS ROAD
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service505
16 April 2018Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Service153
1 April 2017Debris and open burning20 acresLinn County133
8 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLinn County95
30 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service533

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodrich in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGoodrich$15,000Law enforcement reported 14 power poles down near Parker, Kansas. It was unclear if they were broken or leaned over, or if the powerlines were removed from the poles themselves.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindGoodrich-Several trees were down in the Parker area blocking roads.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindGoodrich-An 8 to 10 inch diameter tree was blown down.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindGoodrich-A member of the public reported a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2014HailGoodrich-This report was relayed by the emergency manager.
April 2014HailGoodrich-The hail was reported at 1800 road along the Linn/Anderson County line.
March 2006HailGoodrich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Dunlay1.8 miles14
Parker3.0 miles14
Centerville4.6 miles17
Cadmus6.5 miles14
Farlinville8.1 miles15
Critzer10.8 miles14
La Cygne13.0 miles16
Blue Mound13.5 miles16

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 GoodrichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q100252279The 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 477676. 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.