Dover is a town in Pope County, Arkansas, United States.

Dover is located in the Arkansas River Valley, and is part of the Russellville Micropolitan Statistical Area.

By 1863, in most of the state, travel was dangerous, farming hazardous, and county government inoperative.

[8][9][10] During the military reconstruction period (1867-1868), companies E and G of the Nineteenth Infantry[11] were stationed in Pope County and headquartered at Dover for a year and a half.

Winds from a storm on March 8, 1878, damaged the county courthouse in Dover, rendering it "unfit and unsafe".

[19] With the county having no funds to repair the structure, its condition became a consideration for some in the issue of moving the county seat, with citizens of Russellville offering a building site and $2,500 to build a new courthouse there at no cost to the taxpayers.

More than half of the businesses in the commercial part of town were lost to fire on February 15, 1930, as were at least 8 homes on two city blocks.

Fighting the blaze, thought to have originated as a grass fire, was hampered by the lack of a water supply and high winds.

[28] Simmons was arrested without resistance, was sentenced to death on December 10, 1989,[29] waived mandatory appellate review,[30] and executed on June 25, 1990, the quickest sentence-to-execution time in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a land area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2).

The subregion is a thin transition area between the flat and fertile Arkansas Valley Plains to the south along the Arkansas River, and the steep and densely forested lands of the Boston Mountains in northern Pope County.

Elevation changes and soil types make the Arkansas Valley Hills largely unsuitable for row agriculture.

Logging remains an important land use where elevation or soil makes livestock farming unsuitable.

Also included in the council's duties is balancing the city's budget and passing ordinances.