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New Hope, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32462. The Survey maps it on the Millers Ferry quadrangle.

New Hope within Washington County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Hope, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of New Hope, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 956 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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 maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
15 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceICE TEA RD (67)
28 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service67/WARD PLACE-0472
12 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service67/GALLOWAY-0668
7 June 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Hope: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$1,000A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 79 and Millers Ferry Road.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Hope-A tree was blown down on Highway 79 and Millers Ferry Road.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Millers Ferry1.9 miles13
Live Oak3.0 miles13
Norum3.0 miles13
Holmes Valley3.5 miles14
Bunker Donation4.5 miles13
Vernon6.0 miles14
Coosada Old Town (historical)6.2 miles15
Hinsons Crossroads6.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295485. 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.