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New Hope, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bodcaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71801. The Survey maps it on the Patmos quadrangle.

New Hope within Hempstead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

91 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,080 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning22
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of New Hope: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hempstead County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2015Tornado (EF1)New Hope$15,000An NWS Storm Survey team concluded that damage near the Patmos community was consistent with that of EF-1 tornado damage. This tornado partially lifted the roof off a mobile home along AR 355. The tornado continued north and snapped several trees before lifting along Hempstead County Road 9.
July 2023Flash FloodNew Hope-Significant flooding over County Road 8, with a portion of the roadway washed out.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Hope-Trees reported down along the 3300 block of Highway 355.
May 2003HailNew Hope-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hempstead 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
Sardis (historical)0.5 miles15
Patmos2.3 miles15
Alton (historical)2.3 miles15
Coler2.9 miles15
Evening Shade3.8 miles15
Hennessey (historical)4.4 miles14
Shover Springs5.6 miles15
Spring Hill5.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61463. 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.