BlockDover, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48617. The Survey maps it on the Browns Corners quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Browns Corners quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Midland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1992 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HARRISON COMMUNITY FD 179 - 2020 |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLARE 14 |
| 24 July 2001 | Fireworks | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HARRISON COMMUNITY FD 188 - 2019 |
| 10 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLARE 17 |
| 4 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLARE 13 |
| 30 June 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLARE 28 |
| 7 May 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dover: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clare Prtlnd Cmnt Co Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Dover | $100,000 | An NWS storm survey concluded that an EF-0 tornado occurred with a path length of about a hundred yards. The upwind side of a barn wall was partly caved in. Tree limbs were snapped and a house attachment or garage-like structure on cinderblocks was destroyed. One large and healthy tree northeast of the garage-like structure damage and along the centerline of the tornado track was completely delimbed. Elsewhere, there were trees snapped or sheared. Near the end of the path a section of metal roofing was torn off a barn. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Dover | - | A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed that a small and brief tornado touched down in Clare county early in the morning of July 30. The tornado was rated an EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with maximum winds estimated at 80 mph. ||The tornado occurred about three miles north of Clare at 3:17 a.m. A |barn collapsed and the roof of a carport was blown into a stand of trees. Several other trees were either snapped off or uprooted. ||The tornado touched down just northwest of the intersection of South Clare Avenue and East Surrey Road and traveled east northeast about 2,000 feet before lifting. The width of the tornado was only 50 yards and it was on the ground for only about a minute. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 624833. 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.