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Dover, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rocky Ford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. It stands on Simmons Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle. It stands 102 feet above sea level.

Dover within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1939

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Old hotel in Dover, Georgia
Old hotel in Dover, Georgia
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1939. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,038 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 22 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
Debris and open burning161
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-BULLOCH-002
7 September 2001Debris and open burning17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-SCREVEN-006
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-BULLOCH-003
3 September 2003Debris and open burning9.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-SCREVEN-003
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-SCREVEN-017
20 September 2005Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BULLOCH-013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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
July 2013Flash FloodDover$30,000Screven County Emergency Manager reported that the Herbert Jacobs Dam has been breached. Large trees and debris were swept across Highway 17. Pond was emptied in about 20 minutes.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDover$16,000The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree brought down power poles near the intersection of Effingham Highway and Highway 301.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindDover$10,000Large oak tree was reported down on a trailer near the intersection of Jarroll Pond Road and Dorsey Clark Road.
July 2013Flash FloodDover$5,000Several reports of road closures along Highway 301, including Capitola Road and Edenfield Road.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindDover$5,000A trained weather spotter reported 3 large oak trees uprooted on Jarrell Pond Road, 2 miles east of Cooperville, Georgia. Several other trees and power lines were blown down, with several of the trees snapped at the top.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDover$4,750The media reported trees and powerlines down along with a damage to a carport.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindDover$1,000Law enforcement reported a couple trees down along Dover Road and Highway 17 one mile northeast of Dover Georgia.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindDover$500The Public reported several 3 inch diameter Magnolia Tree limbs knocked down along with penny size hail, in Dover, Georgia.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindDover$500An NWS Employee reported 1 tree down along State Road 17, 3 miles East of Dover.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindDover$500A post office employee reported a power line down in front of the Paradise Motel in Dover, Georgia.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDover-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Statesboro Highway near the intersection with Dover Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDover-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Dover Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDover-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a couple trees down on Highway 301 near Dover.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDover-Screven County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Statesboro Highway and Highway 17.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDover-Screven County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Dorsey Clark Road and Highway 17.
July 2013Flash FloodDover-Highway 17 and Route 301 near Coopersville are closed due to earlier torrential rains and also due to a partial breach of the nearby earthen dam on the pond at Herbert Jacobs Farm.
July 2003Tornado (F2)Dover-A tornado moved out of Bulloch county into the extreme southern part of the county. Numerous trees were knocked down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDover-Large limbs and power lines down.
May 1995HailDover-Golf ball-size hail fell in Dover near the Screven/Bulloch County line.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Screven 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
Cooperville1.1 miles16
Cameron2.6 miles16
Ogeechee4.0 miles15
Double Heads5.1 miles16
Halcyondale6.7 miles16
Captolo7.1 miles16
Goloid8.2 miles16
Rocky Ford8.5 miles15

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 Q19986584The 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 355538. 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.

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.