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.
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
Sage Innlisted 1976
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1889 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Dover quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 120 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 273 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 131 |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 185 |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 83 |
| 2 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Kansas State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 30 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
48 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $500,000 | Winds clocked at 90 mph produced damage to trees, power lines and some buildings. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Dover | $10,000 | Intense rains brought fast flowing water across area streets with some waters 10 to 20 feet deep. Some families evacuated due to high water. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $400 | Strong winds blew down tree limbs and damaged guttering on a house. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Estimated 60 mph gust near Dover. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Estimated 70 mph wind gust. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Reported at 29th and Glick Road. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Gustnado reported southwest of 29th and Glick Road. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Dover | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Dover | - | Per social media post showing 2 inch hailstones. |
| April 2016 | Flood | Dover | - | Water rescue ongoing from flooding on Mission Creek near K-4. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Dover | - | Flash flooding over road at 3300 SW Carlson Road. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Dover | - | Portions of Carlson RD closed due to flooding near 11000 block, near K-4 and south of Interstate-70. |
| September 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Dover | - | The public reported a thin landspout 3 miles southeast of Dover, Kansas. It made intermittent ground contact for about a minute. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn | 7.6 miles | 17 | |
| Valencia | 8.5 miles | 19 | |
| Willard | 8.9 miles | 19 | |
| Silver Lake | 10.5 miles | 20 | |
| Kiro | 11.8 miles | 20 | |
| Rossville | 11.8 miles | 19 | |
| Cullen Village | 12.5 miles | 18 | |
| Menoken | 13.0 miles | 20 |
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 | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5302446 | 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 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.







