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Goodland, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Goodland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48444. It stands on Elk Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Imlay City quadrangle.

Goodland within Lapeer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Goodland between 2018 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined6
Natural2

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 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000035 - 2019
5 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000051 - 2019
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARCADIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000010 - 2019
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000041 - 2018
18 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2019
20 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGOODLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000006 - 2018
10 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000123 - 2019
9 October 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIMLAY CITY FD 0000112 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodland in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2017Thunderstorm WindGoodland-A tree was reported blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGoodland-Trees reported blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGoodland-Local law enforcement reported a tree blown down on Shaw Road.

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
Lum4.2 miles10
Imlay City4.8 miles10
Kings Mill6.2 miles10
Attica6.7 miles10
Burnside8.0 miles10
Five Lakes9.1 miles10
Dryden10.6 miles11
North Branch11.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617590. 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.