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History · Dodson

Dodson’s post office opened in 1900, and 14% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1949 on and the census since 1910.

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How Dodson began

When was Dodson founded?

1900

The Dodson post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 845 in 19102020 census: 294126 years
Founding year: the first Dodson post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Dodson’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Dodson are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dodson’s history is told.

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The story so far

Dodson, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dodson yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Dodson is a village in Winn Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Dodson had a population of 294.

Its first post office opened in 1900. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 337 to 294 (-13%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Dodson, 1886 to 1949

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1886Born hereRobert L. Stovall is born here
  3. 20th century
  4. 1900Post officeThe Dodson post office opens
  5. 1949On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Dodson, decade by decade

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On the map

Dodson on the map, 1949 to 2003

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Dodson. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Dodson on the 1949 USGS mapDodson on the 1950 USGS mapDodson on the 1985 USGS mapDodson on the 2003 USGS map1949Jonesboro sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Dodson.

People over time

Dodson, census by census

0200400600800192019401960198020002020Peak: 845

Between 294 and 845 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Dodson’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about Dodson’s history

What year was Dodson founded?

The Dodson post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.