BlockIsle of Hope, Georgia
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31406. It stands on Freedom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Isle of Hope quadrangle. 2,357 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.
On record in Isle of 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 within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Isle of Hope Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 0.2 miles away
- Clarence and Louise Golden Williams Houselisted 2023 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresIsle of Hope fell from 2,402 to 2,357 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 | 2,402 | |
| 2020 | 2,357 | -45 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Isle of Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Isle of Hope quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
81 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Isle of Hope between 1992 and 2017, burning about 348 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 20 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 | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-CHATHAM-002 |
| 26 July 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 June 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Isle of Hope in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isle Of Hope | $10,000 | Several trees down. One down on a house. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isle Of Hope | $2,000 | Trees down. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isle Of Hope | $1,000 | A report of a tree down on Waite Drive near the intersection of Government Road was received via social media. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isle Of Hope | $1,000 | Chatham County Emergency Management reported a tree down at 5 Tiffany Place. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Isle Of Hope | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree, blocking a road and downing power lines. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Isle Of Hope | - | Penny size hail was reported by the public 3 miles south of Thunderbolt, Georgia. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Isle of Hope | - | Golfball-size hail covered the ground 2 to 3 inches deep. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Isle Of Hope | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wymberly on the Marsh | 0.3 miles | 15 | |
| Wymberly | 0.4 miles | 15 | |
| Parkersburg | 0.5 miles | 15 | |
| Wormsloe | 0.6 miles | 15 | |
| Bakers Crossing | 0.7 miles | 15 | |
| Grimball Park | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Harrock Hall | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Sandfly | 1.0 miles | 15 |
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 Isle of Hope | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2212257 | 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 332069. 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.