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Good Hope, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32531. It stands on Dry Ford Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blackman quadrangle.

Good Hope within Okaloosa County

Then and now

1949 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Good Hope, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Good Hope, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Good Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,945 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism15
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGOOD HOPE (46)
23 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service46-NANA'S FIRE - 0906
13 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSTATE LINE (46)
30 August 2000Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2000Natural3.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaDOUGLAS
9 July 2006Arson/incendiarism40 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHERMAN KENNEDY FIRE-1146
4 July 2012Natural35 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSANDHILL (46)
17 July 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaFRACTION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okaloosa 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
Escambia Farms0.8 miles14
Blackman3.1 miles14
Oak Grove4.6 miles13
Peaden4.9 miles13
Clear Springs7.3 miles14
Rock Creek7.8 miles12
Cannon Town8.2 miles13
Okaloo8.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 305734. 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.