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Dover, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55929. The Survey maps it on the Eyota quadrangle. 782 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Dover within Olmsted 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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dover grew from 735 to 782 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
2010735
2020782+47 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1992 and 2008, burning about 4 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
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2002Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2000Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2007Smoking2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Olmsted County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDover$65,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDover$35,000no account filed
September 2000HailDover$22,000no account filed
September 2000HailDover$20,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDover$10,000no account filed
September 2000HailDover$8,500no account filed
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Dover$5,000An EF-0 tornado touched down north of Dover and then traveled southeast for about a half mile. The tornado damaged some corn and trees.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDover$4,000no account filed
June 2001HailDover$1,500no account filed
September 2000HailDover$1,500no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindDover$1,000no account filed
August 1999Flash FloodDover$1,000no account filed
May 2015HailDover-Quarter sized hail fell near Dover.
May 2013Heavy RainDover-The automated mesonet reporting equipment in Dover reported 2.52 inches of rain.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDover-Spotters in Dover measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
August 2010Heavy RainDover-Heavy rain fell across the area, with 3.30 inches of rain measured 1 mile east of Dover. In the same time frame, 2.20 inches of rain fell at Chester Woods Park, located 2 miles east of Chester.
May 2008HailDover-Penny size hail was reported by a broadcast media employee in Dover.
July 2008HailDover-no account filed
July 2008HailDover-no account filed
March 2005HailDover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Olmsted 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
Eyota4.8 miles9
Kingsley Corner7.3 miles14
Viola9.2 miles15
Cummingsville9.4 miles9
Predmore10.4 miles9
Chester11.2 miles15
Marion11.3 miles9
Simpson14.8 miles10

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 Q946564The 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 642910. 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.