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Goshen, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Springtown-Reno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76082. It lies near Indian Knob. The Survey maps it on the Springtown quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Goshen within Parker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

172 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Goshen between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,404 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Debris and open burning49
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARTER
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6700 HUTCHESON HILL ROAD
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4000 AGNES CIRCLE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service289 ENGLISH COURT
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker 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
Agnes2.6 miles17
Springtown3.4 miles18
Carter3.7 miles18
Poolville6.0 miles17
Highland Addition6.4 miles18
Wright7.6 miles16
Sabathany8.1 miles20
La Junta8.3 miles20

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 GoshenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710469The 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 1378371. 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.