Dover Hill, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47581. It stands on Dover Run. The Survey maps it on the Shoals quadrangle. 96 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDover Hill fell from 114 to 96 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 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 96 | -18 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1950 USGS Shoals quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Shoals quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Shoals quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dover Hill in 2014, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Hoosier National Forest | COUNTY FARM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 73 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 73 workings within 5 miles of Dover Hill: 60 occurrences, 10 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoals Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Shoals Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| U.S. Gypsum Co. Shoals Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | 1951, 1955 | |
| Opening No. 14 | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Opening No. 14 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Opening No. 15. | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Opening No. 15. | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Opening No. 16 | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Opening No. 16 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Opening No. 23 | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover Hill in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Dover Hill | $10,000 | The tornado was spawned along Dover Hill Road, about 500 feet northeast of the intersection with Rama Dye Road, where large tree limbs and small trees were downed in multiple directions. The tornado skipped while tracking from southeast to northwest for almost 2 miles, with further small trees and tree limbs downed at Killion Mill Road about 0.4 miles east of the intersection with Crane Road, near Lark Ranch. Eyewitness accounts, photos, and Doppler radar data indicated a weak tornado in both areas. Only tree damage was reported. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover Hill | $5,000 | Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts across the northern portions of the county. No specific locations or size of tree was given. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover Hill | $1,000 | A tree was downed across State Highway 450 near Brett Road due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Dover Hill | - | Windows and siding were damaged on a church |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shoals Overlook | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Shoals | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Ironton | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Willow Valley | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Indian Springs | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Cale | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Scenic Hill | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 6.4 miles | 15 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5302500 | 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 450862. 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.







