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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.

Fort Dodge within Ford County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Fort 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.

YearPeople Change
2010165
202097-68 (-41%)

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.

Fires near this place

80 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresFord County1170287
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFord County1170285
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1150150
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1150161
4 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFord County1170257
3 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFord County1170256
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFord County1067

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ford 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
Wilroads Gardens0.5 miles14
Happy Homes Park2.4 miles14
Wilroads3.0 miles14
Wright4.1 miles13
South Dodge4.5 miles14
Dodge City4.6 miles14
Sears9.3 miles14
Ford11.7 miles14

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 DodgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3887900The 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.