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Lodi, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75657. The Survey maps it on the Lanier quadrangle. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Lodi within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Lodi between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,063 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6179
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6174
7 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 379
5 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 335
30 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 466

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lodi: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Hagerty DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
HarrisIronOccurrence
Harris DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Lindon No. 1-BIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodi in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2023Thunderstorm WindLodi-A tree was downed on FM Road 2683.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Lodi-A damage survey completed in Marion and Cass counties determined that a severe thunderstorm spawned an EF0 tornado along Highway 248 just south of the Cass County line in northern Marion County. This tornado touched down along Highway 248 just south of the community of Lodi and remained on the ground before crossing over into Cass County. The damage consisted of numerous trees snapped and uprooted.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Payne1.8 miles12
Hall4.7 miles12
Prospect5.2 miles12
White Oak6.9 miles13
Smithland7.3 miles15
Berea8.1 miles13
Burford8.3 miles13
Jefferson8.9 miles12

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 LodiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6666396The 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 1378592. 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.

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.