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Dover, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Emery town. It lies in ZIP code area 54555. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle. It stands 1,660 feet above sea level.

Dover within Price County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Dover between 1992 and 2018, burning about 62 acres in total. None 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
14 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2008Recreation and ceremony9.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesASPEN RD
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGS
4 May 1997Debris and open burning1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestWOOL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Price County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

13 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 13 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 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
July 2020Flash FloodDover$30,000Numerous roads were washed out in the town of Emery with a few culvert failures as well.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Dover$5,000A tornado affected the area near the intersection of County Highway H and Willow Road. A citizen reported a tornado around this location that further corroborates the damage survey findings. Damage along the path was mostly to trees. A small shed was destroyed, a metal barn lost some roof paneling, and several large trees were snapped at one property. [DI 1 (SBO), DOD 2, EXP, Est. Gust 75-80 mph].
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDover-A tree was downed onto a road near Pike Lake.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDover-Numerous large trees were broken or uprooted at a residence along State Highway 70 along with trees down and blocking Sheep Ranch Road.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDover-Several trees were blown down.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindDover-A large maple tree with a diameter of 18 to 20 was blown down and laying across the road near the intersection of Gerber and Turner Lake roads.
September 2014HailDover-There was also a lot of tree damage.
September 2014HailDover-In addition to the hail, there was tree damage from high winds.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Dover-A brief weak tornado caused some minor tree damage in far northeast Price County. [DI 28 (TS), DOD 2, LB-EXP, Est. Gust 65-70 mph].
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDover-Tree limbs and power lines were down in Emery Township.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindDover-Several large trees were blown down.
August 2015HailDover-no account filed
May 2012HailDover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Worcester7.3 miles10
Brantwood8.4 miles8
Cranberry Lake8.7 miles10
Prentice10.1 miles10
Phillips11.4 miles10
Pennington14.5 miles10
Coolidge (historical)15.2 miles11
Spirit15.5 miles9

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 Q5302453The 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 1579140. 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.