Fort Dodge, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grandview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67801. The Survey maps it on the Fort Dodge quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,464 feet above sea level.
On record in Fort Dodge
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
- Fort Dodge - Junior Officers' Quarterslisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresFort Dodge fell from 165 to 97 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 165 | |
| 2020 | 97 | -68 (-41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Spearville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Spearville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Kinsley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
80 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Fort Dodge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 390 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ford County | 1170287 |
| 6 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ford County | 1170285 |
| 4 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1150150 |
| 24 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1150161 |
| 4 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ford County | 1170257 |
| 3 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ford County | 1170256 |
| 7 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ford County | 1067 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilroads Gardens | 0.5 miles | 14 | |
| Happy Homes Park | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Wilroads | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Wright | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| South Dodge | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Dodge City | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Sears | 9.3 miles | 14 | |
| Ford | 11.7 miles | 14 |
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 Fort Dodge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3887900 | 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 473892. 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.





