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Goodridge, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Goodridge City. It lies in ZIP code area 56725. The Survey maps it on the Goodridge quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Goodridge within Pennington County

Population over time

2 figures

Goodridge fell from 132 to 112 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
2010132
2020112-20 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Goodridge between 2005 and 2019, burning about 459 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 May 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2012Arson/incendiarism80 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2013Debris and open burning25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2015Arson/incendiarism17 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2015Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2015Arson/incendiarism30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2005Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 November 2011Arson/incendiarism260 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodridge in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2024HailGoodridge-Broadcast media relays report of 2.75 inch hail in ESE of Goodridge.
August 2018HailGoodridge-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Goodridge-The tornado tracked northward intermittently for roughly 2 miles. The tornado knocked down several large tree limbs and snapped off some smaller trees. Heavy farm machinery was moved around by the winds. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGoodridge-Many large trees were snapped off or uprooted. A metal storage shed full of furnature was blown across a yard. Truck loading equipment was blown down at the fertilizer plant.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGoodridge-Trees were blown down and some shingle damage was reported.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGoodridge-Trees were uprooted in Goodridge.
June 2019HailGoodridge-no account filed
June 2005HailGoodridge-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGoodridge-no account filed
July 2001HailGoodridge-no account filed
June 2000Flash FloodGoodridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pennington 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
High Landing6.5 miles6
Erie6.6 miles6
Mavie6.9 miles6
River Valley8.6 miles6
Hazel18.3 miles10
Challenger Court19.6 miles10
Basswood Court19.8 miles10
Greendale Manor19.8 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.

Wikipedia article on GoodridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1898413The 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 644226. 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.