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Dotham, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64446. It stands on Hickory Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dotham quadrangle.

Dotham within Atchison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Dotham between 2018 and 2020, burning about 121 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179339-00307-09272019-1429
29 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179098-00307-05292019-1202
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179096-00307-04212019-0646
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190431-00307-04112020-0930
3 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190124-00307-03032020-1154
26 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190360-00307-03262020-1640
21 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177630-00307-03212018-0137
6 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179470-00307-11062019-1924

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison 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
Oswald4.6 miles14
York5.2 miles12
London7.6 miles14
Fairfax8.3 miles13
Milton10.2 miles13
Tarkio10.4 miles12
Westboro14.4 miles10
Nishnabotna14.7 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 DothamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q26721029The 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 738571. 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.