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New Hope, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Victoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36346. The Survey maps it on the Brundidge SE quadrangle.

New Hope within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1995 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-11
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140712-001
9 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commission2433 CO RD 210, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Hope: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cof 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Hope-Trees and power lines were down on CR105 between CR114 and CR107.
December 2015Flash FloodNew Hope-County Road 114 near the chicken plant was washed out due to flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Java1.3 miles11
Frisco2.9 miles11
Clowers Crossroads3.0 miles11
Roeton3.5 miles11
Chestnut Grove3.9 miles11
Victoria4.1 miles11
Mixson5.6 miles11
Lowry Mill6.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 123780. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.