Editing Dogpatch (section)

== Other uses ==
*[[U.S. Army]] and [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] units in Vietnam during the [[Vietnam War]] often called their housing compounds "Dogpatches", due to the primitive conditions.{{cn|date=May 2021}}
*The term was used by American chemical engineers such as William J. Wilcox, Jr. and Warren Fuchs, during [[World War II]] who were working on the [[Manhattan Project]]; the engineers used the term from the comic strip to describe their first [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]] dormitories, with dark and dismal furniture and used beds from an old YMCA, and kept using the term when they transferred to [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee]].<ref>William J. (Bill) Wilcox Jr., Oak Ridge City Historian, Retired Technical Director for the Oak Ridge Y-12 & K-25 Plants, November 11, 2007, [http://www.oakridgeheritage.com/images/Early_Days_of_Oak_Ridge_and_Wartime_Y-12.pdf Early Days of Oak Ridge and Wartime Y-12] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129042228/http://www.oakridgeheritage.com/images/Early_Days_of_Oak_Ridge_and_Wartime_Y-12.pdf |date=November 29, 2014 }}, Retrieved November 22, 2014</ref>
*[[47th Fighter Squadron]] is known as the DogPatchers, and their [[A-10C]] aircraft are named after the characters from ''Li'l Abner''. Each airplane has artwork depicting these characters located on the inside of the boarding ladder door.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hecht |first=Matt |date=2012-02-29 |title=Reserve A-10s in the fight |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/image/532752/reserve-10s-fight |access-date=2022-08-06 |website=DVIDS |language=en}}</ref>
*Dogpatch is also the name of a restaurant in [[Munising, Michigan]], United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dogpatchrestaurant.com/ |title=Dogpatch Restaurant of Munising Michigan |access-date=October 20, 2021}}</ref>
*Various cities and towns have neighborhoods, often [[lower social class]], nicknamed "Dogpatch" in reference to the comic strip's locale, including 
**[[Marble Falls, Arkansas]]
**[[Dogpatch, San Francisco]]
**[[Dog Patch, West Virginia]]
**[[Edmonton]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Dogpatch |url=https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/edmonton_archives/dogpatch# |website=Edmonton.ca |publisher=City of Edmonton |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>
**[[Greater Sudbury]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Lively's Dogpatch to be rebranded as Little Creighton |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/lively-s-dogpatch-to-be-rebranded-as-little-creighton-1.3193969 |website=CBC News |publisher=CBC |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>
**[[Calgary]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kaufmann |first1=Bill |title=Ex-Calgarian Tommy Chong heralds a cannabis ban going up in smoke |url=https://calgaryherald.com/cannabis/cannabis-business/ex-calgarian-tommy-chong-heralds-a-cannabis-ban-going-up-in-smoke |website=Calgary Herald |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>