Hopewell, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31822. The Survey maps it on the Pine Mountain SW quadrangle.

Hopewell within Harris County

On record in Hopewell

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Story-Hadley Houselisted 2002 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Pine Mountain SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell between 1992 and 2019, burning about 578 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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	59
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	7
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-HARRIS-001
13 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS002
25 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	8.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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
Smiths Crossroads	1.5 miles	11
Beech Springs	1.8 miles	11
Copeland (historical)	2.0 miles	11
Wisdoms Store (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Whitesville	4.1 miles	14
Tip Top	4.7 miles	10
Champion Crossroad	4.9 miles	10
Pine Lake	5.2 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q5900105

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 315638. 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.