Hopewell, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31568. It stands on Monkey Island Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jerusalem quadrangle.

Hopewell within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1917 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Jerusalem quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Jerusalem quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,782 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 30 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	97
Natural	51
Arson/incendiarism	30
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	5
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
8 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Natural	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Natural	40 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	7.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CAMDEN-010
3 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Natural	175 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CAMDEN-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Refuge (historical)	1.2 miles	18
Woodbine	2.0 miles	18
Jefferson	2.4 miles	17
Plantation Point	2.7 miles	18
Runnymeade	2.7 miles	18
Halifax	3.1 miles	18
Scarlet	3.5 miles	17
White Oak	3.5 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 Hopewell	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5900030	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 332023. 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.