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Dodge, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Riverside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77334. It stands on Elder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Phelps quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Dodge within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

120 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Dodge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 12 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 burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8076
8 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8068
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 397
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 41
22 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 28
18 September 2011Natural1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 916

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dodge in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 2 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
May 2015Thunderstorm WindDodge$19,000Thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed a barn and downed some large tree limbs along Roy Webb Road near Dodge.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindDodge-Trees were downed on FM 405 to the south of Dodge.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Carolina3.3 miles13
Phelps4.2 miles13
Harmony4.3 miles13
Arizona4.8 miles13
Mount Morian5.1 miles13
Gospel Hill6.2 miles12
Pine Valley6.5 miles13
Riverside7.4 miles13

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 DodgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4116446The 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 1381774. 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.