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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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 Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Phelps quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Phelps quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
120 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 72 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8076 |
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 8068 |
| 8 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 397 |
| 7 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 41 |
| 22 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 28 |
| 18 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 916 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge | $19,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed a barn and downed some large tree limbs along Roy Webb Road near Dodge. |
| March 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge | - | Trees were downed on FM 405 to the south of Dodge. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carolina | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Phelps | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Harmony | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Arizona | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Morian | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Gospel Hill | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Pine Valley | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Riverside | 7.4 miles | 13 |
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 Dodge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4116446 | 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 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.





