Goodland, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hearne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77859. The Survey maps it on the Calvert quadrangle.

Goodland within Robertson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Calvert quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

74 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Goodland between 2005 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning	43
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
26 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
19 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	7.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BARRACUDA
5 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIEE
5 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Port Sullivan	1.8 miles	7
Marvin	2.9 miles	8
Valley Junction	3.2 miles	7
Barton	3.5 miles	8
Seger	3.6 miles	7
Hearne	4.0 miles	7
Calvert Junction	5.5 miles	8
Tatsie Crossing	6.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379844. 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.