Little Hope, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Centreville-Brent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35034. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pearson quadrangle. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Little Hope within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1899 USGS Brookwood quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1931 USGS Cottondale quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Cottondale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Pearson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2002 USGS Pearson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

116 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Little Hope between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,062 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 43 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
Arson/incendiarism	43
Debris and open burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	7
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	EOLINE, AL
3 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 82 CENTREVILLE, AL
27 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-9
18 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	413 acres	National Forests in Alabama	OK 745
17 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130917-002
16 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Egypt (historical)	1.1 miles	20
Harmon	1.8 miles	20
Eoline	2.8 miles	11
Data (historical)	3.5 miles	11
Ingate	4.4 miles	11
Pleasant Hill	4.7 miles	11
Spencer	4.7 miles	11
Scottsville	4.7 miles	18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Little Hope	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058493	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 151011. 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.