Dover, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Stanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59479. The Survey maps it on the Merino quadrangle.

Dover within Judith Basin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1890 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000
1897 USGS Fort Benton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Merino quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Belt quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 2019 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
2 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.5 acres	Judith Basin County	FDH-MTLG36-331
22 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Judith Basin County	FDH-MTLG36-329
29 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Judith Basin County	FDH-MTLG36-95
17 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Judith Basin County	HILL MA
16 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Judith Basin County	FDH-MTLG36-132
13 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Judith Basin County	FDH-MTLG136-133

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Judith Basin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dover: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Sand Coulee Siderite Deposits	Iron, Coal	Past Producer
Unnamed Clay Occurerence	Clay	Occurrence
Unnamed Clay Occurrence	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Judith Basin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Surprise Creek Colony	5.2 miles	13
Stanford	5.3 miles	13
Merino	5.4 miles	13
Arrow Creek	9.9 miles	14
Windham	11.9 miles	13
Geyser	12.2 miles	13
Lehigh	12.6 miles	13
Scholtztown	12.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 770733. 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.