Dover, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1887 1989

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

• Benjamin Caryl Houselisted 2000
• Elm Banklisted 1987

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• Caryl Parsonage, Dedham Street, Doverfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Chickering House, Doverfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• First Parish Meetinghouse, Springdale Avenue, Doverfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Dover grew from 2,265 to 2,452 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.

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.

• 1887 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1919 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1921 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:62500
• 1940 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Boston quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1945 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1946 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Boston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1970 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1985 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Medfield quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Boston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Norfolk County Manual, and Year Book for 1876, published 1877; History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Dover Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 2015 and 2020, burning about 49 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Charles River Station
• Charles River Village
• Westwood
• Glenridge
• Norwood
• Babson Park

Every fire recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 12,553 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dover between 1805 and 1975: 5,504 Animalia, 3,424 Plantae, 3,241 Fungi, 204 Protozoa, 109 Chromista, 50 Unrecorded, 21 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, ? ex Herb. W.G. Farlow, A C Gibson and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Araiospora pulchra Thaxt.	1900	R. Thaxter	Stony Brook
	Hieracium venosum L.	1900	E. F. Williams	Blue Hills Reservation
	Hypoprepia fucosa Hübner, 1831	1900	not recorded	Sherborn
	Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)	1805	Bryant, O.	Wash Brook, So. Sudbury, Mass.
	Corydalis Vent.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester turnpike, 6 miles from Boston.
	Corylus L.	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston.
	Nuphar Sm.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Worcester Turnpike 6 miles from Boston.
	Sassafras J.Presl	1815	Boott, F.M.B.	Worcester Turnpike, 6 miles from Boston.
	Thalictrum L.	1815	not recorded	Worcester Turnpike.
	Viola L.	1815	Boott, J.W.	Worcester Turnpike, 7 miles from Boston, U.S.A. [Identical locality information is written on the reverse of the sheet.]
	Alnus Mill.	1816	not recorded	Brighton, 4 miles from Boston.
	Aquilegia L.	1816	not recorded	Brighton 3½ miles from Boston.

All 12,553 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dover: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Norfolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Norfolk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 611917. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.