Goree, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Goree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76363. The Survey maps it on the Munday East quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGoree fell from 203 to 158 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 203 | |
| 2020 | 158 | -45 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Munday East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Haskell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Goree between 2006 and 2019, burning about 206 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2011 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPADE FIRE |
| 14 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2018 | Natural | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HASHKNIFE RANCH WEST SIDE |
| 6 July 2018 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 479 PASTURE FIRE |
| 28 July 2006 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE COUNTY LINE HWY 277W |
| 9 February 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | AIRPORT HAY FIRE |
| 16 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 479 BOMARTON GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goree in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | $50,000 | Several power poles were blown down and a semi-trailer was blown over along U.S. Highway 277. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated from radar observations. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | $7,500 | Power lines and trees were downed. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Goree | - | A storm chaser for a Wichita Falls television station observed a tornado near Goree. No damage was reported and the location of the tornado is esimated. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. Severe (>50-knot) wind gusts occurred during the event time, with the peak gust of 87 knots occurring at 1906 LST. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. Severe (>50-knot) wind gusts occurred during the event time, with the peak wind gust of 54 knots occurring at 0823 LST. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. Severe (>50-knot) wind gusts occurred during the event time, with the peak wind gust of 59 knots occurring at 1857 LST. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Goree | - | Relayed via social media. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | No damage reported. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | Tree limbs downed. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Goree | - | Strong thunderstorms in the western portions of north Texas during the afternoon and evening hours on the 12th produced a tornado, hail up to softball-size and damaging winds. Hail up to baseball-size from two miles east of Margaret to three miles southwest of Lockett broke many windows and windshields. The hail accumulated up to six inches deep in places and stripped pecan trees of leaves and pecans and destroyed much of the cotton crop. Golf ball-size hail broke windows and windshields just north of Vernon, broke windshields just north of Seymour and destroyed the roof of a house and severely damaged a car, a pickup and a camper three miles east of Seymour. Hail up to golf ball-size covered the ground in Chillicothe. Baseball-size hail broke windows 10 miles southwest of Crowell. Hail up to golf ball-size damaged the surface of tennis courts and the roofs of the Chillicothe schools. Strong thunderstorm winds damaged irrigation equipment five miles west of Lockett. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Goree | - | no account filed |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Goree | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Goree | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Goree | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Goree | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Goree | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Goree | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goree | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Goree | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Goree | - | 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.
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 Goree | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972285 | 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 1358194. 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.



