New Hope, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mooresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35756. The Survey maps it on the Mason Ridge quadrangle.

New Hope within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Mason Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Mason Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Mason Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 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 2019, burning about 785 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
Natural	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
9 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190909-7
7 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	FM 97-8
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	FM 98-7
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 tornado, 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	New Hope	$10,000	A tornado produced sporadic EF-0 damage with winds up to 65 mph along New Hope Road in extreme southeastern Limestone County just north of the Tennessee River, where convergent wind patterns were noted in a grass and wheat field. A larger area of grass and wheat was flattened along County Line Road south of Swancott Road. Minor tree and roof damage occurred at a residence in this area.
January 2022	Tornado (EF0)	New Hope	$1,000	A tornado touched down just west of County Line Road in Limestone County, where a couple of trees were uprooted. The tornado then moved east-northeast into Madison County.
March 2016	Tornado (EF0)	New Hope	-	There was enough evidence to suggest that the tornado continued through northern Morgan County and crossed the Tennessee River into extreme SE Limestone County. A supplemental survey completed by the University Alabama Huntsville determined that the tornado did cross the river during its dissipation stage, and produced minor tree damage along the river bank in Limestone County. The damage associated with the weakening tornado was comparable to weak EF-0 damage. There was minor damage recorded slightly further downstream, however that damage did not meet EF-0 criteria. Therefore, the official tornado tracked was ceased at the river bank on the Limestone County side.
July 2013	Flood	New Hope	-	Areal flooding persisted on fields and some roadways through the 6th.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Swancott	1.6 miles	24
Mooresville	4.3 miles	22
Belle Mina	5.7 miles	22
Greenbrier	5.8 miles	25
Sweetwater	5.9 miles	22
Irvington	6.9 miles	22
Whiteside	7.7 miles	22
Salem Corner	8.3 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156785. 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.