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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.

Goree within Knox County

Population over time

2 figures

Goree 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.

YearPeople Change
2010203
2020158-45 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

11 since 2006

Regional 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
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 September 2011Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPADE FIRE
14 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2018Natural75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHASHKNIFE RANCH WEST SIDE
6 July 2018Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 479 PASTURE FIRE
28 July 2006Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE COUNTY LINE HWY 277W
9 February 2017Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAIRPORT HAY FIRE
16 February 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service479 BOMARTON GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGoree$50,000Several 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 2005Thunderstorm WindGoree$7,500Power lines and trees were downed.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindGoree-Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGoree-Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation.
June 2025Tornado (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 2025Thunderstorm WindGoree-Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGoree-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 2025Thunderstorm WindGoree-Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGoree-Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGoree-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 2025Thunderstorm WindGoree-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 2023Thunderstorm WindGoree-Hefner (HEFN) Mesonet observation.
May 2023HailGoree-Relayed via social media.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGoree-No damage reported.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGoree-Tree limbs downed.
October 1993HailGoree-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 2026HailGoree-no account filed
February 2023Thunderstorm WindGoree-no account filed
May 2023HailGoree-no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGoree-no account filed
May 2016HailGoree-no account filed
May 2013HailGoree-no account filed
April 2007HailGoree-no account filed
July 2005HailGoree-no account filed
May 1999HailGoree-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGoree-no account filed
May 1997HailGoree-no account filed
March 1995HailGoree-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Hefner4.6 miles7
Munday5.4 miles7
Rhineland8.2 miles7
Sunset10.1 miles7
Vera11.7 miles7
Knox City16.0 miles7
Benjamin16.3 miles7
Union Grove18.5 miles7

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 GoreeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972285The 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.