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Dover Illinois Map

Explore Dover, Illinois, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Dover, Illinois

How to Use This Dover, Illinois Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Dover, Illinois. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Illinois or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Dover.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Dover
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Bureau County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.436702
Longitude	-89.393424
Population	135
Density	186.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	61323
Area Code	815
County Seat	Princeton
School District	Princeton Elementary School District 115

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About Dover, Illinois

Dover is a locality in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 135. The population density is 186.2 people per km². Dover is located at 41.4367°N, 89.3934°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Dover is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61323.

Dover emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Illinois prairie like a quiet gathering of frame houses and century-old brick, surrounded by an ocean of corn and soybeans that shift from emerald to amber with the turning year. It lies 28.1 miles south of Dixon, IL (from Dixon, IL: bearing 171°T), and is situated 6.0 miles northeast of Princeton. The air here holds a crisp, terrestrial weight, unburdened by the humidity of the distant lowlands, and the light at dusk stretches long across the fields, casting shadows that seem to anchor the buildings to the dark, rich loam. To the west, the gentle rise of Indian Ridge breaks the monotony of the plains, a faint violet suggestion against the sky, while the immediate landscape is drained by the steady, unassuming course of East Bureau Creek. Residents find their leisure in the modest, well-tended grass of North and South Park Village Parks, where the silence of the afternoon is broken only by the rustle of wind through the oaks or the distant hum of a tractor working the perimeter of the village.

Dover persists as a place of deliberate, steady endurance, its identity forged in the mid-nineteenth century by settlers who recognized the fertility of the soil and the necessity of the rail. The economy remains tethered to the pulse of the harvest, a cycle that dictates the pace of commerce and conversation as surely as the seasons dictate the growth of the crops. While the rush of modern transit bypasses these quiet streets, the legacy of the region lives on in the sturdy architecture that lines the roads, reflecting a time when the village served as a vital node in the agricultural expansion of the Midwest. Beyond the reach of larger municipal centers, life in Dover draws a certain contentment from its isolation, looking toward the tranquil waters of Beaver Glenn Lake or the deeper, shadowed recesses of Wolf Hollow for a sense of scale in an otherwise limitless landscape.

Nearby Outdoor Places

North and South Park Village Parks (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 268° W
City County Park (Local Park) — 3.8 mi, 253° W
Bureau County Historical Museum (Museum) — 6.1 mi, 219° SW
Bureau County Fairgrounds (Local Recreation) — 6.1 mi, 224° SW
Old Indian Boundary Line (State Recreation Area) — 7.0 mi, 328° NW
Bureau Balley Country Club (Local Recreation) — 7.3 mi, 193° S
Lake DePue State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.7 mi, 158° S
Hennepin Canal (State Recreation Area) — 9.0 mi, 181° S
Cherry Mine Disaster (Monument) — 9.3 mi, 093° E
Donnelley State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.0 mi, 163° S
West End Gun Club (Park) — 10.3 mi, 145° SE
AMC Classic Peru Mall 8 (Cinema) — 14.9 mi, 112° E
Birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok (Attraction) — 16.2 mi, 083° E
Stage 212 (Theatre) — 17.2 mi, 116° SE
Starved Rock Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 20.1 mi, 114° SE
Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 20.5 mi, 116° SE
Saint Louis Canyon (Viewpoint) — 21.7 mi, 112° E
Plum Island Site (Historic Ruins) — 22.1 mi, 110° E
Outside Amphitheather (Theatre) — 22.3 mi, 111° E
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.9 mi, 177° S · 13k acres
Ronald Reagan birthplace historical marker (Monument) — 24.3 mi, 303° NW
President Ronald Reagan as a boy (Public Artwork) — 24.3 mi, 303° NW
Tampico Area Historical Society and Museum (Museum) — 24.3 mi, 304° NW
Civil War monument (Monument) — 24.3 mi, 303° NW
Earlville History Museum (Museum) — 26.6 mi, 066° NE
SVCC Art Gallery (Gallery) — 28.3 mi, 338° N
Sinnissippi_Mounds (Historic Ruins) — 28.4 mi, 331° NW
The Next Picture Show (Gallery) — 28.5 mi, 351° N
F-105D Thunderchief (Attraction) — 29.0 mi, 349° N
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 48.3 mi, 302° NW · 274k acres

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