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New Hope, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Holly Pond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35083. The Survey maps it on the Simcoe quadrangle.

New Hope within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1997 and 2018, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Smoking6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 1561, AL
18 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 1561, AL
14 September 2018Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180914-2
6 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140806-001
5 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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
Brooklyn2.0 miles19
Holly Pond2.5 miles19
Birdsong2.8 miles17
Baileytown3.0 miles17
Union Grove3.9 miles19
Baileyton4.2 miles20
Fairview4.3 miles18
Simcoe5.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 123784. 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.