Goodwater, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Southeast McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74740. The Survey maps it on the Goodwater quadrangle.

Goodwater within McCurtain County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1950 USGS Goodwater quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Goodwater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

314 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Goodwater between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,039 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 152 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/incendiarism	152
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	62
Debris and open burning	41
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	18
Recreation and ceremony	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	3

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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Talihina Agency	76
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	109 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Talihina Agency	CLAMPETT#2
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10226
30 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10521
29 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCurtain County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodwater in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodwater	-	An outdoor storage building was destroyed.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodwater	-	A large tree fell onto a mobile home several miles south of Eagletown.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Goodwater	-	Goodwater Road was flooded.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodwater	-	Trees were downed on the north side of the Little River near the Mountain Fork River.
October 1993	Hail	Goodwater	-	Thunderstorms in far southeast Oklahoma during the early morning hours on the 18th produced strong winds and hail up to nickel-size.

Every storm recorded in McCurtain 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
Shinewell	3.8 miles	10
Eagle Town (historical)	4.6 miles	10
Redland	5.3 miles	11
Moon	5.9 miles	10
Bokhoma	6.0 miles	10
Haworth	6.1 miles	10
America	6.7 miles	10
Lukfata (historical)	7.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1101434. 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.