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Goodland, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Sand Hills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79371. The Survey maps it on the Maple quadrangle.

Goodland within Bailey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

28 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Goodland between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,279 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2011Natural60 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011097
27 September 2011Natural250 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011096
21 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2018131
16 August 2018Natural500 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2018127
12 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2018122
11 August 2019Natural250 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2019101
11 August 2011Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011083
5 July 2011Natural13 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAVINESS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bailey County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodland in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2022HailGoodland-A storm chaser reported golf ball size hail in far southwestern Bailey County.
June 2002HailGoodland-Hail up to quarter size destroyed crops.
October 2000Thunderstorm WindGoodland-A tree was blown down onto Highway 54 west of town.
June 2003HailGoodland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bailey 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
Maple4.4 miles7
Stegall9.1 miles9
Enochs11.5 miles7
Baileyboro13.5 miles8
Needmore16.8 miles8
Bula18.1 miles9
Circleback19.8 miles8
Fairview24.7 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 GoodlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q111939288The 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 1379845. 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.