BlockDodd, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79031. The Survey maps it on the Dodd quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Dodd quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Muleshoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Dodd between 2008 and 2017, burning about 1,354 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OPEN GRASS |
| 11 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 99 GRASS FIRE |
| 4 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 900 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2017008 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dodd in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodd | $3,000 | Reports on social media indicated a power pole was blown over near the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 1524 and 1055. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Dodd | - | A storm chaser with a local television station reported ping pong ball size hail in extreme southwestern Castro County. |
| April 2017 | Tornado (EFU) | Dodd | - | This is the continuation of the prior tornado in Parmer County. This tornado tracked east into west-central Castro County where it dissipated around 1707 CST, about 12 miles west-southwest of Dimmitt. No evidence of damage accompanied this tornado. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Dodd | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Dodd | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q125398759 | 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 1379670. 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.
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.