Dover, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Mount Hood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97055. It stands on Kasch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cherryville quadrangle. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.

Dover within Clackamas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1916 USGS Estacada quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Cherryville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Cherryville quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Cherryville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1992 and 2019, burning about 145 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	4
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	LILIAN LN
5 September 1993	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Molalla Unit	LINDE #2
28 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	GOAT MTN TOWER
26 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	GRANDMA
24 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	BRIAN RANCH RD
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HOWLETT FIRE
23 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	TRUBEL GRASS FIRE
23 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Molalla Unit	BORNSTEDT GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clackamas 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
George	2.5 miles	18
Firwood	3.2 miles	19
Bissell	3.7 miles	18
Tracy	3.8 miles	25
Douglass Ridge	3.9 miles	25
Garfield (historical)	4.6 miles	25
Cherryville	4.6 miles	18
Sandy	4.9 miles	26

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.

Wikidata item Q130717774

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 1141217. 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.