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Goodland, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Dent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63623. It stands on Brooks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Viburnum East quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Goodland within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Goodland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,706 acres in total. None started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism51
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresMark Twain National ForestMAXWELL FIRE
24 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresMark Twain National ForestCOUNTY ROAD 72
24 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMIDDLE FORK
21 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestTRACTOR
14 July 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresMark Twain National ForestSUMMER FIRE
6 June 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresMark Twain National ForestKEITH SPRINGS
28 June 2012Arson/incendiarism616 acresMark Twain National ForestEAST END
25 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresMark Twain National ForestBOTTLE ROCKET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Goodland: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Nitrogen-Nitrates. 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
Nitre CaveNitrogen-NitratesPast Producer
Burt MineClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Love BankIronPast Producer
Rogers BankIronOccurrence
Sligo Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodland in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGoodland$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees onto Highway 49.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Redmondville1.9 miles20
East End3.2 miles22
Maxwells Mill5.1 miles20
Good Water5.8 miles22
Bixby6.2 miles22
Enough (historical)6.7 miles20
Buick6.9 miles20
Shepard (historical)7.4 miles20

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 GoodlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5583419The 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 750074. 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.