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Goodrich, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Goodrich town. It lies in ZIP code area 54451. The Survey maps it on the Goodrich quadrangle. It stands 1,460 feet above sea level.

Goodrich within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Goodrich between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOLD LUNCH FIRE
13 May 2018Debris and open burning1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSUNSHINE
10 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLEMKE CREEK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Goodrich: 4 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Big Rib River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Coffee Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Goodrich Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mink Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Mink Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Creek Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Spring Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Spring Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodrich in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindGoodrich$500no account filed
May 2024HailGoodrich-The public reported quarter sized hail approximately 3 miles south of Goodrich.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Interwald5.4 miles9
Stetsonville13.1 miles6
Little Black13.3 miles6
Rib Lake13.3 miles8
Medford13.5 miles6
Whittlesey13.8 miles6
Chelsea15.2 miles10
Queenstown17.6 miles10

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 GoodrichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5583570The 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 1565635. 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.