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Goodnow, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cassian town. It lies in ZIP code area 54529. It stands on Horsehead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harshaw quadrangle. It stands 1,519 feet above sea level.

Goodnow within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Goodnow between 1992 and 2019, burning about 71 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Fireworks1
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
30 August 2019Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUCK LANE
31 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFERNWOOD FIREWORKS
1 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Goodnow: 9 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Perry Lake Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Beaver Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cassian PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Currie Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Goodnow Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Harshaw Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Harshaw Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Heiress Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rocky Run Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rocky Run Road Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodnow in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGoodnow-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Cassian. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Goodnow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Harshaw2.4 miles12
McNaughton7.2 miles12
Sunflower7.5 miles12
Hazelhurst8.1 miles12
Newbold8.6 miles12
Woodboro8.8 miles12
Manson (historical)9.0 miles12
Lake Tomahawk9.1 miles12

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 GoodnowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5583558The 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 1577617. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.