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Goodells, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Wales Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48027. It stands on Johnson Drain. The Survey maps it on the Goodells quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Goodells within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Goodells between 1994 and 2020, burning about 96 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT FD 0000143 - 2019
9 April 1994Smoking12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Debris and open burning54 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 1996Misuse of fire by a minor20 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT FD 0000060 - 2019
26 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT FD 0000065 - 2018
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT FD 0000061 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Goodells: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Click Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodells in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 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 1997HailGoodells-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Thornton2.7 miles12
Wales Center2.8 miles12
Abbottsford3.2 miles10
Lambs4.0 miles12
Ruby5.2 miles11
Emmett5.3 miles13
Smiths Creek5.7 miles12
Avoca5.7 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122563772The 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 1624564. 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.