Goodnight, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mooney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65648. It stands on Little Pomme de Terre River. The Survey maps it on the Fair Grove quadrangle.

Goodnight within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1884 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000
1886 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1947 USGS Strafford quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Strafford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Fair Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

69 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Goodnight between 1993 and 2020, burning about 447 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 August 1997	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
18 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tin Town	1.9 miles	20
Pleasant Hope	2.7 miles	17
Rock Prairie	2.9 miles	20
Rex	6.3 miles	17
Brighton	6.5 miles	17
Schofield	7.4 miles	17
Sunset	8.4 miles	16
Van	8.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 732793. 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.