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Hopewell, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Plant City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33567. The Survey maps it on the Nichols quadrangle. It stands 102 feet above sea level.

Hopewell within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hopewell, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Hopewell, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,128 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
30 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 NICHOLS DUFF
29 June 1998Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 June 2011Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Service60 WEST (29)
10 June 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hopewell: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Agglite DebrisPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1935
Dot Tampa - Sydney Washer MineSandUnknownSand
Hopewell MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumProducer1985
Hillsborough MinesPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Imc Agrico - HopewellPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducerCollophane

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopewell in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2026Thunderstorm WindHopewell$2,500County fire rescue reported a tree down across power lines near Willow Oak.
September 2014Heavy RainHopewell-A CoCoRaHS observer south of Plant City measured 7.78 inches of rain during the 4 day period.

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough 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
Bealsville2.6 miles12
Trapnell2.8 miles12
Pleasant Grove2.9 miles13
Hopewell Gardens3.5 miles13
Durant3.6 miles13
Beattys Corner3.6 miles13
Keysville4.4 miles12
Coronet4.7 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HopewellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5900108The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 284253. 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.