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Goodwill, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Goodwill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57262. The Survey maps it on the Goodwill quadrangle.

Goodwill within Roberts County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Goodwill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 224 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
Debris and open burning25
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking5
Fireworks5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
27 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresSisseton AgencyBLACKSMITH
21 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSisseton AgencyCRAWVILL3
20 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSisseton AgencyCRAWVILL2
16 September 1998Debris and open burning2.5 acresSisseton AgencyTWOSTAR
11 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSisseton AgencyOLD DISTRICT
11 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSisseton AgencyBARKER HILL
5 August 2013Naturalunder an acreSisseton AgencyTREE TRUNK
11 August 2013Naturalunder an acreSisseton AgencyGREEN GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roberts County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodwill in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood, 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 2008Flash FloodGoodwill$100,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGoodwill-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph resulted in broken branches.
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Goodwill-A trained spotter reported a tornado lasting about 5 minutes.
July 2016HailGoodwill-no account filed
June 2008FloodGoodwill-no account filed
June 2007HailGoodwill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roberts 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
Peever6.3 miles12
Valley View Estates6.7 miles6
Sisseton6.8 miles6
Spring Grove7.2 miles7
Peever Flats7.7 miles12
Long Hollow Housing9.4 miles6
Rudebusch Corner10.6 miles7
Wilmot15.7 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1255285. 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.