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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.

Dover Hill within Martin County

Population over time

2 figures

Dover 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.

YearPeople Change
2010114
202096-18 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2014

Regional 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 burning1

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
11 March 2014Debris and open burning40 acresHoosier National ForestCOUNTY FARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 73 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
U.S. Gypsum Co. Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1951, 1955
Opening No. 14IronOccurrence
Opening No. 14IronProspect
Opening No. 15.IronOccurrence
Opening No. 15.IronProspect
Opening No. 16IronOccurrence
Opening No. 16IronProspect
Opening No. 23IronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Tornado (EF0)Dover Hill$10,000The 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 2020Thunderstorm WindDover Hill$5,000Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts across the northern portions of the county. No specific locations or size of tree was given.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDover Hill$1,000A tree was downed across State Highway 450 near Brett Road due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2002HailDover Hill-Windows and siding were damaged on a church

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Shoals Overlook3.1 miles15
Shoals4.1 miles15
Ironton4.6 miles15
Willow Valley4.9 miles18
Indian Springs5.3 miles13
Cale5.6 miles13
Scenic Hill5.8 miles13
Pleasant Valley6.4 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 Dover HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5302500The 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.