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Doddridge, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sulphur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71834. The Survey maps it on the Doddridge quadrangle. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Doddridge within Miller County

On record in Doddridge

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

147 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Doddridge between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,510 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 59 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
Arson/incendiarism59
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use277 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMILLER-LA
4 September 2011Smoking58 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doddridge in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
February 1998Thunderstorm WindDoddridge$50,000Trees and powerlines were blown over. A church steeple was blown off a church while several chicken houses were either damaged or destroyed.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindDoddridge$50,000Numerous trees were blown down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindDoddridge$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindDoddridge$42,000Roof blown off a home on the outskirts of town.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindDoddridge$40,000Numerous trees down over county roads. Roof blown off a home and a porch blown down.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindDoddridge$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
January 1993Thunderstorm WindDoddridge$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
March 2024Flash FloodDoddridge-Multiple county roads near Doddridge were flooded and closed.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDoddridge-Multiple trees downed along Highway 71 in Doddridge.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindDoddridge-Trees downed on Highway 160 just past County Road 195 east of Doddridge.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDoddridge-Trees and power lines downed just north of Doddridge.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDoddridge-Trees and power lines were downed across Southern Miller County.
April 2020HailDoddridge-Quarter size hail fell in the Doddridge community.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDoddridge-A few trees were blown down across the southwest sections of Miller County.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDoddridge-A tree was downed near Hwy. 71 and Hwy. 160.
October 2001Flash FloodDoddridge-Widespread flooding along highway 171 near Dodridge closing this major north-south highway. Dopplar Radar estimates from Shreveport indicated 5 to 7 inches of rain.
May 1994HailDoddridge-Several trees were blown down.
January 1993HailDoddridge-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
April 2012HailDoddridge-no account filed
June 2007HailDoddridge-no account filed
March 1999HailDoddridge-no account filed
January 1998HailDoddridge-no account filed
November 1997HailDoddridge-no account filed
January 1993HailDoddridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Spring Bank (historical)2.2 miles15
Kiblah2.9 miles16
Black Diamond3.0 miles15
Smithville3.4 miles15
Brightstar4.6 miles16
Fort Lynn5.2 miles15
Era (historical)5.8 miles16
Capps City6.1 miles16

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 DoddridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5287785The 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 57666. 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.