Dodd, Texas

Not to be confused with Dodd City, Texas.

Dodd is an unincorporated community in Castro County, Texas, United States.^[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 15 in 2000.

Dodd, Texas
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 34°20′6″N 102°28′43″W
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Castro
Elevation	3,806 ft (1,160 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	806
GNIS feature ID	1379670[1]

History

Dodd was named for a family of local settlers in the early 1900s. The settlement had a store, a grain elevator, and a gin serving 35 people from the 1970s to 1990. Its population went down to 15 in 2000.^[2]

A mausoleum can be found in a private cemetery in northern Dodd. It is said to be the grave of someone named I.D. Beasley.^[3]

Geography

Dodd is located on Farm to Market Road 303, 18 mi (29 km) southwest of Dimmitt in the southwestern corner of Castro County.^[2]

Education

Schoolchildren in Dodd attended Big Square school, located north of the community, until 1945 when it joined the Dimmitt and Springlake-Earth School Districts.^[2]

Today, the community is served by the Springlake-Earth Independent School District.