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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.

Dover within Bonner County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dover 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.

YearPeople Change
2010556
2020752+196 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

114 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning22
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
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
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSCHWEITZER MTN
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresPend Oreille Area OfficeEAGLE CREST
28 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPOS 033 MUSKRAT
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsWRENCOE
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsGUN CLUB
24 September 1992Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsNORTH PRATER
23 September 1992Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsRED LIGHTNING
21 September 1994Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsM-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Hill MineGold, Silver, Copper, BismuthPast ProducerSurface/Underground
Cabinet RangeCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Hayes MineSilver, LeadOccurrence
Hayes ProspectLead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceVein
Iron Deposit ProspectIron, Copper, GoldOccurrence
Iron OccurrenceIron, SilverOccurrence
Lost Tin MineTinOccurrence
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Big CasinoSilver, LeadOccurrence
Idaho PanhandleCopper, GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDover$2,000A 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 2024HailDover$500Spotter recorded one inch hail and estimated 65 MPH wind gust. Spotter also out of power.

Every storm recorded in Bonner 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
Sandpoint3.5 miles17
Lignite4.0 miles18
Algoma4.3 miles18
Sagle4.8 miles18
Wrencoe5.1 miles17
Ponderay5.5 miles17
Morton5.5 miles17
Dufort6.0 miles18

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 Q733687The 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.