BlockDover, Missouri
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63448. The Survey maps it on the La Grange quadrangle.
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.
- 1903 USGS Kahoka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1994 and 2020, burning about 222 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230799-05620-09242020-1832 |
| 7 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220648-05620-08252020-1429 |
| 20 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179332-05620-07202019-2125 |
| 30 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177178-05620-06302018-1500 |
| 8 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 29 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 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 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lagrange Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 2 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Thunderstorm winds blew over a 5th wheel camper, flattened some corn and uprooted or snapped off a couple of large trees. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dover | - | Hail approaching the size of baseballs pounded the Dover area along Highway Z. Several vehicles were severely damaged. Several homes in the area suffered roof and siding damage and broken windows. A motorhome damaged by the storm looked like "somebody took a hammer to every inch of it." |
| March 2012 | 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.
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 Q27985691 | 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 740813. 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.