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Goodrich, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77335. It stands on Sanson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodrich quadrangle. 248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

Goodrich within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Goodrich fell from 271 to 248 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
2010271
2020248-23 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Goodrich between 1992 and 2020, burning about 818 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePHILLIP 66 STATION
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELMORE LOOP
5 September 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 42
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasBLUEBIRD
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 68

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Goodrich: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Goodrich Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodrich in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail. 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 2016Flash FloodGoodrich$500,000Five structures damaged in the Goodrich area. Roads damaged near Corrigan and over eastern part of county.
October 2006Flash FloodGoodrich$24,000County-wide roads closed due to high water. A few subdivisions (Wild Country & Big Thicket Estates) were flooded in and around the Livingston to Big Thicket area.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindGoodrich$15,000Trees down in Goodrich and Blanchard.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindGoodrich$10,000Thunderstorm winds severely damaged a barn.
February 2012Flash FloodGoodrich$10,000Heavy rainfall caused numerous road closures between the towns of Cleveland, Shepherd, and Segno over to areas near Dillardsville. A rainfall total of 9.30 inches was recorded by a cooperative weather observer in the community of Ace.
April 2004HailGoodrich$5,000Golfball-size hail in Goodrich.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGoodrich$5,000Trees and powerlines blown down in the Goodrich/Mt Rose area.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindGoodrich$4,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Windham Ranch Road.
January 1998HailGoodrich$3,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGoodrich$3,000no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindGoodrich$500Polk County Sheriff's Office reported high winds knocked tree limbs onto Highway 59 near Goodrich
May 2024Flash FloodGoodrich-Roadways across Goodrich were impassable due to flash flooding.
August 1994HailGoodrich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
New Hope1.8 miles12
Lamont3.6 miles12
Swartout3.8 miles12
Providence5.0 miles12
Schwab City6.2 miles12
West Livingston7.0 miles12
East Tempe7.1 miles12
Livingston7.3 miles12

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 GoodrichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982806The 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 1358169. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.