New Hope, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Berry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35555. The Survey maps it on the New Lexington quadrangle.

New Hope within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1994 and 2020, burning about 611 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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	27
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190801-4
4 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2011	Natural	54 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	VICK ROAD, AL
2 July 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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
Concord	2.4 miles	10
Newtonville	6.1 miles	11
Gumbud	8.9 miles	10
Bankston	9.1 miles	10
Berry	9.5 miles	12
Jerusalem	10.4 miles	11
Cleveland	10.5 miles	10
Rossland City	10.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137752. 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.