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South Dodge, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dodge City City. It lies in ZIP code area 67801. It lies near Boot Hill. The Survey maps it on the South Dodge quadrangle.

South Dodge within Ford County

On record in South 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 within a mile 8 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

142 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of South Dodge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 2,795 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined71
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use18
Fireworks6
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFord County1423
4 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFord County1170257
3 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFord County1170256
28 August 2015Natural20 acresKansas Forest Service1150142

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
Dodge City0.7 miles14
Happy Homes Park2.3 miles14
Fort Dodge4.5 miles14
Wilroads Gardens4.8 miles14
Sears4.8 miles14
Wilroads7.2 miles14
Wright7.3 miles13
Howell8.9 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122557308The 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 471694. 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.