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Dover, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Plant City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33527. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle. 3,266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 102 feet above sea level.

Dover within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dover, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Dover, surveyed 1955

Population over time

2 figures

Dover fell from 3,702 to 3,266 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,702
20203,266-436 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1992 and 2019, burning about 351 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 TATE
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSYDNEY DOVER (29)
23 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 June 2011Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Service60 WEST (29)
16 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service910
10 June 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 May 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dover: 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Peat, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
East Pierce DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1920
Unnamed Peat DepositPeat, MagnesiteOccurrence
F.E. Stearns Peat - Stearns PitPeatProducer
Dot Tampa - Pruitt MineSandUnknownSand
Dot Tampa - Sydney Washer MineSandUnknownSand
Red Barn Farm Excavation - Red Barn MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2000: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindDover$25,000The Hillsborough County Sheriffs Department reported that thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines near Gallagher and Gore Roads near Dover.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindDover$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Dover and blew the roof off a barn in Plant City.
July 1999HailDover-Nickel to dime sized hail was reported from Dover to Riverview by the public through WTVT-TV and Bay News Nine Cable of Tampa.

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough 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
Snows Corner0.6 miles16
Turkey Creek2.1 miles13
Sydney2.2 miles13
Seffner3.1 miles16
Beattys Corner3.2 miles13
Jolly Corner3.8 miles16
Antioch4.0 miles16
Mango Hills4.0 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on DoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2464119The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 281733. 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.