Goodwill, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Washington-Chappell Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77880. The Survey maps it on the Daniels quadrangle.

Goodwill within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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
1956 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1961 USGS Daniels quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

81 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Goodwill between 2006 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 4 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	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2

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
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MIRACLE FARM
22 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DAVID WOLF
9 August 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILLER
7 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	JOHNSON
6 August 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BARROLL
27 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WVFD
23 August 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
19 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ILLEGAL BURNING 8578 FM 1370

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Brown College	2.8 miles	8
Whitman	3.0 miles	8
Graball	3.1 miles	10
Daniels	3.2 miles	8
Washington	5.9 miles	10
Earlywine	6.7 miles	9
William Penn	7.2 miles	10
Chappell Hill	7.8 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 Goodwill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54871448	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 1378369. 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.