Goshen, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77873. It stands on Lee Branch. The Survey maps it on the San Jacinto quadrangle. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Goshen within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS San Jacinto quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS San Jacinto quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Goshen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,495 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 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 burning	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 844
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	FARRIS
3 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 369
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
San Jacinto	0.0 miles	14
Bath	5.5 miles	13
Wesley Grove	5.7 miles	10
Loma	6.2 miles	10
Galilee	6.7 miles	10
Pine Hill	9.3 miles	14
Crabbs Prairie	9.9 miles	11
Moore Grove	10.1 miles	13

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 Goshen	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5587253	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 2034809. 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.