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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Maple quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 2006Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2011 | Natural | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011097 |
| 27 September 2011 | Natural | 250 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011096 |
| 21 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2018131 |
| 16 August 2018 | Natural | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2018127 |
| 12 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2018122 |
| 11 August 2019 | Natural | 250 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2019101 |
| 11 August 2011 | Natural | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011083 |
| 5 July 2011 | Natural | 13 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CAVINESS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Hail | Goodland | - | A storm chaser reported golf ball size hail in far southwestern Bailey County. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Goodland | - | Hail up to quarter size destroyed crops. |
| October 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodland | - | A tree was blown down onto Highway 54 west of town. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Goodland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple | 4.4 miles | 7 | |
| Stegall | 9.1 miles | 9 | |
| Enochs | 11.5 miles | 7 | |
| Baileyboro | 13.5 miles | 8 | |
| Needmore | 16.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bula | 18.1 miles | 9 | |
| Circleback | 19.8 miles | 8 | |
| Fairview | 24.7 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 Goodland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q111939288 | 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 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.




