Arkansas · Census place 0519600

Dover, Arkansas

Dover is a city in Pope County, Arkansas with an estimated 1,368 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 165th largest of 185 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,368
#165 of 185 in Arkansas
Change since 2020
+3.0%
+40 people
Land area
2.8 sq mi
Density
483 / sq mi
State median 1,001
Orange pin: Dover. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Little Rock.

Dover population, 2020 to 2024

Dover added 40 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +18.

1,32820201,33720211,34020221,35020231,3682024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,329. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Dover covers 2.83 square miles of land, for 483 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Dover is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dover is in

All of Dover's residents live in Pope County, which had 64,829 residents in 2024. Dover holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dover

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dover by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72837. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Dover is

The Census internal point of Dover is at 35.391000, -93.114200. Little Rock, the capital, is 64.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Russellville, AR (29,442 people), 8.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 62.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.391000, -93.114200
DMS
35°23'27.60"N 93°06'51.12"W
UTM
15N 489628.9E 3916410.9N
Geohash
9ymc34sr9
Plus code
86789VRP+98

Daylight in Dover

At 35.39° N, Dover gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dover

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Russellville, 8.0 miles away, with 29,442 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Dover, AR?

1,368 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 40 (3.0%) from 1,328 in July 2020.

What county is Dover in?

Pope County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Dover?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 72837.

How far is Dover from Little Rock?

64.5 miles (103.8 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Dover.

What is the nearest larger city to Dover?

Russellville, AR, with 29,442 residents, 8.0 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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