Dover, Idaho
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Sandpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83864. It lies near Tank Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sandpoint quadrangle. 752 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,070 feet above sea level.
On record in Dover
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Dover Churchlisted 1989
Population over time
2 figuresDover grew from 556 to 752 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 556 | |
| 2020 | 752 | +196 (+35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1911 USGS Priest Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1911 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1913 USGS Priest Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
114 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1992 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SCHWEITZER MTN |
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.6 acres | Pend Oreille Area Office | EAGLE CREST |
| 28 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | POS 033 MUSKRAT |
| 27 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | WRENCOE |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | GUN CLUB |
| 24 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | NORTH PRATER |
| 23 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | RED LIGHTNING |
| 21 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | M-3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 42 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Dover: 23 past producers, 12 occurrences, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Gold, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Hill Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth | Past Producer | Surface/Underground | |
| Cabinet Range | Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Hayes Mine | Silver, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Hayes Prospect | Lead, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Iron Deposit Prospect | Iron, Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Iron Occurrence | Iron, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Lost Tin Mine | Tin | Occurrence | ||
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Big Casino | Silver, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Idaho Panhandle | Copper, Gold | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $2,000 | A band of weak thunderstorms pushed through the area. Spotter estimated wind gusts from a thunderstorm in the area near Sandpoint. Downed tree and wires north of Priest River, with over 1000 customers without power. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Dover | $500 | Spotter recorded one inch hail and estimated 65 MPH wind gust. Spotter also out of power. |
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.
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 Dover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q733687 | The 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 397637. 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.








