Dodd is an

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in Castro County,

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, United States. According to the ''

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'', the community had an estimated population of 15 in 2000.

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. A

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can be found in a private cemetery in northern Dodd. It is said to be the grave of someone named I.D. Beasley.

Geography

Dodd is located on Farm to Market Road 303, southwest of Dimmitt in the southwestern corner of Castro County.

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

References

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