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Hodge, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64096. It stands on Edwards Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle.

Hodge within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

19,492 words on this township

History of Lafayette County, Mo. , Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri; a Military Record of Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War .., published 1881; Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri, published 1910 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Dover Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Dover Township - 19,492 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hodge: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hodge in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2010: 3 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007FloodHodge-The Missouri River near Waverly had its second highest crest ever of 30.10 feet on May 8th, or 10.10 feet above flood stage.
May 2007FloodHodge-The Missouri River near Waverly crested at 23.04 feet, or 3.04 feet above flood stage.
October 2007FloodHodge-The Missouri River at Waverly crested at 20.24 feet, or 0.24 feet above flood stage.
May 2010HailHodge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Cuba (historical)0.9 miles17
Dover3.8 miles17
Dover Station4.0 miles17
Tabeau5.3 miles17
Waverly5.9 miles17
Page City8.7 miles17
Corder8.7 miles15
Alma9.9 miles16

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 HodgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985650The 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 730118. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.