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Good Hope, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Good Hope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30641. The Survey maps it on the High Shoals quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Good Hope within Walton County

On record in Good Hope

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Good Hope grew from 274 to 339 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010274
2020339+65 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Good Hope between 1992 and 2019, burning about 406 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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 burning85
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking10
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony2

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 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MORGAN002
25 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WALTON-003
24 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-WALTON-002
19 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Smoking1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Good Hope in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$10,000The Walton County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees and power lines down in the vicinity of Chandler Road. A barn was damaged and several homes had damage to roof shingles.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$9,000The Walton County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county from around Good Hope to northwest of Monroe.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,500The public reported several trees down in the Good Hope area.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,000Em reports tree down near good hope at jacks creek rd nw and old good hope rd.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,000Tree down along Nunnally Shoals Rd near Old Monroe Madison Hwy.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,000Tree down at Laboon Rd and Lavista Drive .
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,000Tree down along N highway 83 and Old Good Hope Rd.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,000Report of tree down blocking roadway at Old Monroe Madison Hwy and Queens Cemetery Rd.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,000Emergency Manager reported a tree down in road along 700 block of Brookshire Ct.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,000Report of tree down across road near the intersection GA-83 and Moina Michael Rd.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-Tree down on residence and vehicle at Navaho Trail and ga83.
August 2023Flash FloodGood Hope-The Emergency Manager relayed a report of flooding of the roadway at several points along Highway 83 near and southeast of Good Hope. Radar estimates indicate that between 6 and 7 inches of rain occurred over the northern portion of Morgan county, resulting in the flash flooding.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-Report of a tree and power lines down at Jacks Creek Rd and Old Good Hope Rd.
February 2020Flash FloodGood Hope-The Emergency Manager reported Marion Ivie Road was closed due to flooding. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 5 inches of rain occurred, falling on already wet soils and producing flash flooding.
May 2008HailGood Hope-The public observed quarter-sized hail for up to 10 minutes in the Good Hope area of eastern Walton county.
February 2000HailGood Hope-Walton county 911 reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Walton 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
Pannell3.7 miles17
Mount Vernon4.0 miles17
Snows Mill4.7 miles16
Cleaton (historical)5.0 miles17
Ebenezer5.1 miles16
Monroe5.6 miles17
Bradley6.5 miles17
Caruthers Mill6.6 miles18

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 Good HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3260932The 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 314680. 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.