Dodd City, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dodd City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75438. The Survey maps it on the Dodd City quadrangle. 369 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDodd City grew from 369 to 369 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 369 | |
| 2020 | 369 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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 Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bonham quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Dodd City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
149 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Dodd City between 2005 and 2019, burning about 3,912 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 64 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 53 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 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 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 3045 |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURGESS FIRE |
| 3 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | N. 1743 FIRE |
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WLF HWY 82@ CR 2935 |
| 16 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | US 82 |
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AIDE |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 56 @ CR 2935 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dodd City in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodd City | $40,000 | A large tree fell onto a house and numerous power lines were blown down throughout the city. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodd City | $30,000 | Emergency management reported that a medium sized shop building received major damage in Dodd City, TX. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodd City | $7,000 | Emergency management reported widespread tree damage and some structure damage in Dodd City. Winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | Dodd City | $5,000 | Numerous reports of farm roads flooded near FM 2077. |
| November 2024 | Hail | Dodd City | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail in Dodd City. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Dodd City | - | Emergency management reported quarter sized hail in Dodd City, TX. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Dodd City | - | Amateur radio reported quarter-sized hail one mile northeast of Dodd City, TX. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Dodd City | - | Nickel size hail fell seven miles east of the city of Bonham. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Dodd City | - | Quarter size hail was reported 1.5 miles south of Dodd City on FM 2077. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Dodd City | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Dodd City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Dodd City | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brotherton | 1.8 miles | 6 | |
| Lannius | 2.5 miles | 6 | |
| Burnett | 2.8 miles | 6 | |
| Shady Grove | 2.8 miles | 6 | |
| Hilger | 3.4 miles | 6 | |
| English | 3.7 miles | 6 | |
| Prairie Point | 3.7 miles | 6 | |
| Windom | 4.1 miles | 12 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972662 | 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 1356101. 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.




