Dodds, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63862. The Survey maps it on the Catron quadrangle.

Dodds within New Madrid County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1939 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1971 USGS Catron quadrangle1:24000
1973 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dodds in 1997, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	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 January 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Madrid 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Catron	1.7 miles	11
Sky	1.7 miles	11
Hurricane Ridge	2.3 miles	12
Krepin (historical)	2.7 miles	11
North Lilbourn	2.9 miles	15
Lilbourn	3.2 miles	15
Hondin (historical)	3.3 miles	11
Cody (historical)	3.5 miles	15

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 Dodds	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27986103	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 731562. 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.