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Goshen, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Pleasant Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97405. It stands on Wild Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Creswell quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Goshen within Lane County

On record in Goshen

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

56 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Goshen between 1995 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersEAST 40TH
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDELTA ROAD FIRE #2
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFARBORETUM FIRE
27 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresWestern Lane DistrictOAK FIRE
26 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictSPENCER HOLLOW
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersI-5 EXIT 191
20 September 2007Smokingunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictTIMBER LANE
17 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWestern Lane DistrictSCHAREN ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Goshen: 13 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Springfield Quarry and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clearwater SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clearwater SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goshen in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025FloodGoshen-Coast Fork Willamette River at Goshen rose above minor flood stage (15 ft) on Mar 16 at 1945 PST (2045 PDT), crested at 15.32 ft at 2200 PST (2300 PDT), and fell below minor flood stage around 1215 am PST (1315 am PDT) on March 17.
April 2019FloodGoshen-The Coast Fork of the Willamette River near Goshen crested at 15.9 feet around 9 PM on April 8th, which is 2.9 feet above flood stage. People were evacuated out of the 100-year flood plain.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Springfield3.6 miles19
Glenwood3.6 miles19
Pleasant Hill4.7 miles14
College Hill5.2 miles19
Creswell5.4 miles14
Cloverdale5.4 miles14
North Springfield5.5 miles19
Jasper5.6 miles14

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 GoshenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478133The 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 1136329. 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.