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Good Hope, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Tallassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36078. The Survey maps it on the Claud quadrangle.

Good Hope within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

146 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Good Hope between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,189 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning3.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120927-002
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Good Hope in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2022Tornado (EF0)Good Hope-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in eastern Elmore County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 85 mph. The tornado touched down along Highway 14 just east of County Road 186.|Damage consisted mostly of uprooted trees with some structural damage caused by fallen trees. A few homes also had damage caused directly by wind, such as missing shingles, soffit, and fascia. A carport was also blown off a home. The tornado dissipated |at Kent Road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed along Liberty Road.

Every storm recorded in Elmore County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Neman1.6 miles11
Floyd1.9 miles17
Glendale Acres2.7 miles17
Butts Mill2.8 miles11
Claud3.1 miles17
Friendship3.2 miles11
Chana Creek3.5 miles11
Liberty3.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 119107. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.