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.
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
- Kliegle Garagelisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresGoodwin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 146 | |
| 2020 | 147 | +1 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Goodwin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FARM FIRE |
| 4 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BOSWELL |
| 4 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 4 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 29 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LONGVIEW |
| 21 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | RUST FIRE |
| 18 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 April 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HULSCHER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Flood | Goodwin | $128,700 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Goodwin | - | A storm spotter posted photos of a rope tornado moving through pasture south of Strandburg. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Goodwin | - | Many county roads were flooded and closed throughout Deuel county. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodwin | - | 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodwin | - | Sixty mph winds downed several large tree branches. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodwin | - | Seventy mph winds downed several trees in Goodwin and tore sheet metal from a building. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodwin | - | 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodwin | - | A hip roof barn was totally destroyed. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodwin | - | A 40 by 80 foot pole barn was destroyed. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodwin | - | 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 2019 | Flood | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Flood | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Lightning | Goodwin | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bemis | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Altamont | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Tunerville | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Clear Lake | 12.7 miles | 8 | |
| Moritz | 15.6 miles | 8 | |
| Brandt | 19.0 miles | 8 | |
| Gary | 21.7 miles | 9 | |
| Johnsonville | 23.3 miles | 9 |
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 Goodwin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2198155 | The 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.



