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Goodwin, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Goodwin town. It lies in ZIP code area 57238. The Survey maps it on the Goodwin quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,998 feet above sea level.

Goodwin within Deuel County

On record in Goodwin

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

Population over time

2 figures

Goodwin grew from 146 to 147 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010146
2020147+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Goodwin between 1998 and 2020, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFARM FIRE
4 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBOSWELL
4 May 2009Debris and open burning200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
29 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLONGVIEW
21 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRUST FIRE
18 May 2007Debris and open burning60 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
14 April 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHULSCHER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deuel County

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodwin in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 1 lightning. 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 2019FloodGoodwin$128,700no account filed
May 2023Tornado (EF0)Goodwin-A storm spotter posted photos of a rope tornado moving through pasture south of Strandburg.
March 2019FloodGoodwin-Many county roads were flooded and closed throughout Deuel county.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-Estimated ninety mph winds brought beams from a shed through the roof of a house. Much of the roof on another shed was blown off.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-Sixty mph winds downed several large tree branches.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-Seventy mph winds downed several trees in Goodwin and tore sheet metal from a building.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof of a granary against a house, creating a hole in the side of the home and knocking cupboards off the inside of the home. The wall was pushed in about a foot. Parts of the grainary were thrown 1,500 feet. An apple tree was snapped off and thrown 600 feet. Twenty calf shelters were destroyed injuring one calf. Also, many trees were blown down on a nearby golf course.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-A hip roof barn was totally destroyed.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-A 40 by 80 foot pole barn was destroyed.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-A 30 by 60 foot pole barn and a chicken house were destroyed. Also, a few calf hutches were lost to the strong winds.
June 2019FloodGoodwin-no account filed
May 2019FloodGoodwin-no account filed
April 2018FloodGoodwin-no account filed
June 2017HailGoodwin-no account filed
July 2016HailGoodwin-no account filed
March 2010FloodGoodwin-no account filed
July 2009HailGoodwin-no account filed
May 2006HailGoodwin-no account filed
May 2006HailGoodwin-no account filed
May 2006HailGoodwin-no account filed
May 2005HailGoodwin-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGoodwin-no account filed
May 2005HailGoodwin-no account filed
August 2002HailGoodwin-no account filed
May 1996LightningGoodwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deuel 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
Bemis3.0 miles8
Altamont8.9 miles8
Tunerville8.9 miles8
Clear Lake12.7 miles8
Moritz15.6 miles8
Brandt19.0 miles8
Gary21.7 miles9
Johnsonville23.3 miles9

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 GoodwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2198155The 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 1265645. 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.