Dover Plains, NY

Dover Plains is a hamlet and census-designated place in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 1,322 residents. Dover Plains is part of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area. Dover Plains is in the northern part of Dover on NY Route 22. A newcomer can read Dover Plains through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Dover Plains comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Metro-North Railroad has a Harlem Line station here, bringing commuters to New York City. Dover Plains is not known when or by whom the first settlement was made in Dover Plains. Lawrence and Joseph ran the first store under the name Belding & Co.