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Dover, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Ault census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80612. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle.

Dover within Weld County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1992 and 2018, burning about 824 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNunn Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersNUNN
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
26 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWeld Countynot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
13 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use78 acresWeld Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dover: 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Unnamed Uranium OccurrenceUraniumOccurrence
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2014: 8 hail, 2 tornado. 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
June 2012Tornado (EF0)Dover-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Dover-A tornado touched down in open country. No damage was reported.
June 2014HailDover-no account filed
June 2014HailDover-no account filed
June 2013HailDover-no account filed
June 2012HailDover-no account filed
June 2012HailDover-no account filed
June 2012HailDover-no account filed
September 2010HailDover-no account filed
June 2009HailDover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Nunn5.5 miles15
Rockport8.3 miles18
Carr8.7 miles18
Pierce10.4 miles15
Stage12.2 miles18
Warren13.1 miles17
Ault14.2 miles18
Purcell14.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 171168. 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.