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.
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
Casulon Plantationlisted 1975
Walter Jones Rock Houselisted 1993
Population over time
2 figuresGood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 274 | |
| 2020 | 339 | +65 (+24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS High Shoals quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
167 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 85 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020MORGAN002 |
| 25 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-WALTON-003 |
| 24 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-WALTON-002 |
| 19 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 1998 | Smoking | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $10,000 | The 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $9,000 | The Walton County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county from around Good Hope to northwest of Monroe. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,500 | The public reported several trees down in the Good Hope area. |
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,000 | Em reports tree down near good hope at jacks creek rd nw and old good hope rd. |
| February 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,000 | Tree down along Nunnally Shoals Rd near Old Monroe Madison Hwy. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,000 | Tree down at Laboon Rd and Lavista Drive . |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,000 | Tree down along N highway 83 and Old Good Hope Rd. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,000 | Report of tree down blocking roadway at Old Monroe Madison Hwy and Queens Cemetery Rd. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,000 | Emergency Manager reported a tree down in road along 700 block of Brookshire Ct. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,000 | Report of tree down across road near the intersection GA-83 and Moina Michael Rd. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | Tree down on residence and vehicle at Navaho Trail and ga83. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Good 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | Report of a tree and power lines down at Jacks Creek Rd and Old Good Hope Rd. |
| February 2020 | Flash Flood | Good 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 2008 | Hail | Good Hope | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail for up to 10 minutes in the Good Hope area of eastern Walton county. |
| February 2000 | Hail | Good Hope | - | Walton county 911 reported dime size hail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pannell | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Mount Vernon | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Snows Mill | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Cleaton (historical) | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Ebenezer | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Monroe | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Bradley | 6.5 miles | 17 | |
| Caruthers Mill | 6.6 miles | 18 |
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 Hope | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3260932 | The 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.







