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Goodison, Michigan

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Oakland Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48306. The Survey maps it on the Rochester quadrangle.

Goodison within Oakland County

On record in Goodison

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Goodison between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3

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
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0005044 - 2019
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004371 - 2020
13 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0001820 - 2018
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUBURN HILLS FD 0001651 - 2020
25 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004326 - 2019
23 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER FD 0000909 - 2019
9 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0002595 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0002502 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Goodison: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 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
Ajax Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bald Mt Plant No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Compton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holloway Oakland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nay and Gladstone PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sees Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodison in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 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 2014Tornado (EF1)Goodison$400,000The tornado started near Lambeth Park and New Kent Road and tracked east-northeast, ending near West Ridge Drive and Spring Creek Road. The tornado is rated EF-1 with maximum winds of 90 mph. Maximum path width was 150 yards and path length was 1 1/4 miles. Strongest damage was along Grandview and Fairlane Drives with partial roof torn off of house. Several homes had minor roof and siding damage. Numerous trees were downed along the path.
July 2005LightningGoodison$50,000Lightning struck a house, which caused a fire.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindGoodison$2,000Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindGoodison$2,000Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2025Flash FloodGoodison-Dutton Road flooded and washed out between Orion and Livernois Rds. Flooding of streets and homes in the area. Several inches of water covering the intersection of Collins Road and Orion Road. Rushing water along Whims Lane near Whims Cour with several vehicles stalled in the flood water. Maple Road near Eton Street in Birmingham closed due to flooding.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGoodison-A tree was blown onto the road.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindGoodison-A trained spotter estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGoodison-Several trees limbs and trees were reported blown down.

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Stony Creek3.7 miles18
Rudds Mill3.8 miles13
Rochester3.9 miles21
Campbells Corner4.9 miles13
Auburn Hills4.9 miles21
Rochester Hills5.2 miles21
Yates5.4 miles18
Lake Orion5.4 miles13

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 Q122568182The 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 626946. 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.