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Dover, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66610. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Dover within Shawnee 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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

27 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 2002 and 2020, burning about 342 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service120
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service273
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service131
7 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service185
24 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service83
2 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKansas State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 April 2018Debris and open burning45 acresKansas Forest Service30

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this place

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 27 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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 1994Thunderstorm WindDover$500,000Winds clocked at 90 mph produced damage to trees, power lines and some buildings.
May 2005Flash FloodDover$10,000Intense rains brought fast flowing water across area streets with some waters 10 to 20 feet deep. Some families evacuated due to high water.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDover$400Strong winds blew down tree limbs and damaged guttering on a house.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Dover-Survey revealed a small brief tornado in this location. Tree limb damage was noted to live oaks and white pines. Radar data did also show a small debris signature (CC minimum) in this location with the velocity rotation signature. There was no access to the east.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDover-Estimated 60 mph gust near Dover.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDover-Estimated 70 mph wind gust.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindDover-Reported at 29th and Glick Road.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindDover-Gustnado reported southwest of 29th and Glick Road.
June 2023HailDover-Half dollar sized hail reported.
July 2020HailDover-Per social media post showing 2 inch hailstones.
April 2016FloodDover-Water rescue ongoing from flooding on Mission Creek near K-4.
April 2016Flash FloodDover-Flash flooding over road at 3300 SW Carlson Road.
April 2016Flash FloodDover-Portions of Carlson RD closed due to flooding near 11000 block, near K-4 and south of Interstate-70.
September 2012Tornado (EF0)Dover-The public reported a thin landspout 3 miles southeast of Dover, Kansas. It made intermittent ground contact for about a minute.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed
June 2017HailDover-no account filed
April 2016HailDover-no account filed
April 2016HailDover-no account filed
April 2016HailDover-no account filed
April 2016HailDover-no account filed
April 2016HailDover-no account filed
July 2015HailDover-no account filed
May 2015HailDover-no account filed
May 2011HailDover-no account filed
May 2011HailDover-no account filed
May 2011HailDover-no account filed
May 2011HailDover-no account filed
May 2011HailDover-no account filed
June 2008HailDover-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed
June 2005HailDover-no account filed
June 2005HailDover-no account filed
August 2004HailDover-no account filed
July 2003HailDover-no account filed
April 2002HailDover-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed
April 2001HailDover-no account filed
April 2001HailDover-no account filed
April 2001HailDover-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed
August 2000HailDover-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed
May 1997HailDover-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDover-no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodDover-no account filed
April 1993HailDover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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
Auburn7.6 miles17
Valencia8.5 miles19
Willard8.9 miles19
Silver Lake10.5 miles20
Kiro11.8 miles20
Rossville11.8 miles19
Cullen Village12.5 miles18
Menoken13.0 miles20

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 Q5302446The 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 479043. 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.

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.