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Photograph of Dover Church
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dover Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Dover Church in Dover, Idaho, United States, was designed by Whitehouse & Price and was built in 1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”

Wikipedia article Dover Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Bonner County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Washington between Third and Fourth, Dover, 83825
  • When was it listed? August 1989
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sandpoint
  • Architect. Harold C. Whitehouse
  • National Register reference number. 86002153 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Dover Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 37 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
Natural37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Dover Church: 24 past producers, 9 occurrences, 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 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
Hayes MineSilver, LeadOccurrence
Hayes ProspectLead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceVein
Iron Deposit ProspectIron, Copper, GoldOccurrence
Iron Deposit ProspectGold, CopperOccurrence
Iron OccurrenceIron, SilverOccurrence
Lost Tin MineTinOccurrence
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Big CasinoSilver, LeadOccurrence
Little CasinoSilver, LeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this property

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover, the town this property stands in, 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

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sandpoint High School2.9 miles1999
Co-op Gas & Supply Company3.0 miles2020
Charles A. and Mary Olson House3.0 miles2001
Sandpoint Community Hall3.1 miles1986
W. A. Bernd Building3.3 miles1983
Sandpoint Historic District3.3 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86002153 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bonner CountyAll 18 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.