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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Dodson, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45309. The Survey maps it on the Brookville quadrangle.

Dodson within Montgomery County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dodson, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Dodson, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

18,834 words on this township

The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Clay Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The population of Brookville, the principal village of the township, is 5( being a gain of 165 in the last decade. Of Phillipsburg it is 232, being a g< of 45 in the last ten years ; of South Arlington it is 149, being a gain 25 since 1870 ; of Dodson it is 77, being a gain of 30 in the last decade ; Bachman it is 66, being a loss of one in the last ten years. At this rate decline, this village will be " wiped out" of existence in 660 years ; of Wen^j Lawn, it is 41, a clear gain in the last ten years.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Clay Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 303 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 303 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dodson between 1897 and 1972: 297 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, John, Arden R. Gaufin, BOYER AND DUELLMAN and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of UredoUredo1897Prof. W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Ferrissia rivularis, not of this specimenFerrissia rivularis (Say, 1817)1904Allen, JohnBrookville
Septoria glumarum Pass.1918Paxton G. E.New Lebanon
A photograph of the species Bombus citrinus, not of this specimenBombus citrinus (Smith, 1854)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Bombus fervidus, not of this specimenBombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631929not recorded
Bombus nevadensis auricomus (Robertson, 1903)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1929not recorded
A photograph of the species Bombus vagans, not of this specimenBombus vagans Smith, 18541929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus americanorum (Fabricius, 1775)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus impatiens (Cresson, 1863)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States

All 303 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dodson: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Phillipsburg QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillipsburg-#421Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dodson in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindDodson-Measured on an ODOT wind sensor. Another 58 mph gust was measured at 1405 EST.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Bachman1.1 miles10
Arlington1.5 miles10
Brookville1.9 miles10
Wengerlawn2.0 miles10
Pyrmont2.8 miles10
Swanktown3.7 miles10
Brookville Lakes Estates3.7 miles13
Phillipsburg4.3 miles9

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 DodsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698469The 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 1048664. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.