Dover Air Force Base
Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB is a United States Air Force base under the operational control of Air Mobility Command, located 2 mi southeast of the city of Dover, Delaware.Photo: GB fan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,810 residents
- Description: airbase in Delaware, USA
- Also known as: “DOV”, “Dover Base Housing”, and “KDOV”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Air Mobility Command Museum and John Dickinson House.
Air Mobility Command Museum
Museum
Photo: Teamski1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Air Mobility Command Museum is a military aviation museum located at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, dedicated to the history of the Air Transport Command, Military Air Transport Service, Military Airlift Command and Air Mobility Command. Air Mobility Command Museum is situated 1½ miles east of Dover Air Force Base.
John Dickinson House
Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.
The John Dickinson House, generally known as Poplar Hall, is a National Historic Landmark on the John Dickinson Plantation in Kent County, Delaware, 5 miles south of Dover. John Dickinson House is situated 2 miles southeast of Dover Air Force Base.
Moores Lake
Lake
Moores Lake is a lake located in Kent County, Delaware, United States. The lake is located along Issac Branch south of Dover and east of Camden at an elevation of 10 feet above sea level. Moores Lake is situated 2 miles west of Dover Air Force Base.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Highland Acres and Rising Sun-Lebanon.
Highland Acres
Village
Highland Acres is a census-designated place in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Highland Acres had a population of 3,492. Highland Acres is situated 2 miles west of Dover Air Force Base.
Rising Sun-Lebanon
Village
Rising Sun-Lebanon is a census-designated place in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Rising Sun-Lebanon had a population of 4,104. Rising Sun-Lebanon is situated 2 miles southwest of Dover Air Force Base.
Kent Acres
Village
Kent Acres is a census-designated place in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Kent Acres had a population of 2,144. Kent Acres is situated 2½ miles northwest of Dover Air Force Base.
Dover Air Force Base
- Categories: air base, census-designated place in the United States, and locality
- Location: Kent County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.11855° or 39° 7′ 7″ northLongitude
-75.48335° or 75° 29′ 0″ westPopulation
2,810Open location code
87F64G98+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 11751769044OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q755023
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Waray—“Dover Air Force Base” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Chinese: “Dover Base Housing”
- Chinese: “多佛尔空军基地”
- Chinese: “多佛空军基地”
- Chinese: “多佛空軍基地”
- Croatian: “Dover Base Housing (Delaver)”
- Croatian: “Dover Base Housing”
- Dutch: “Dover Base Housing”
- French: “base aérienne de Dover”
- French: “DOV”
- French: “Dover Air Force Base”
- German: “DOV”
- German: “Dover Air Force Base”
- German: “KDOV”
- Gilaki: “داور بیس هاوزینگ”
- Hebrew: “בסיס חיל האוויר דובר”
- Indonesian: “DOV”
- Indonesian: “KDOV”
- Irish: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Italian: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Italian: “Dover Base Housing”
- Japanese: “ドーヴァー空軍基地”
- Japanese: “ドーバー空軍基地”
- Ladin: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Ladin: “Dover Base Housing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dover Base Housing”
- Newari: “डोभर बेस हाउसिंग (डेलावेर)”
- Newari: “डोभर बेस हाउसिंग, डेलावेर”
- Newari: “डोभर बेस हाउसिंग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dover flystasjon”
- Norwegian: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Persian: “پایگاه نیروی هوایی دوور”
- Portuguese: “Dover Base Housing”
- Serbian: “Довер Бејс Хаусинг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dover Base Housing, Delaver”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dover Base Housing”
- Slovenian: “DOV”
- Slovenian: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Slovenian: “KDOV”
- Slovenian: “Letalsko oporišče Dover”
- Spanish: “Base de la Fuerza Aerea Dover”
- Spanish: “Base de la Fuerza Aérea Dover”
- Spanish: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Spanish: “Dover Base Housing”
- Swedish: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво дувр”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи Нерӯи Ҳавоии Довер”
- Urdu: “ڈوور ایئرفورس بیس”
- Uzbek: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Uzbek: “Dover Base Housing”
- Uzbek: “Довер Басе Ҳоусинг”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dover Air Force Base”
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