Hope, Idaho
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Clark Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83836. It stands on Strong Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,192 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHope grew from 86 to 98 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 | 86 | |
| 2020 | 98 | +12 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1911 USGS Priest Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1913 USGS Priest Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Packsaddle Mtn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Packsaddle Mtn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Hope quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Hope quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | POS 021 CENTENNIAL |
| 4 September 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | BRIDGE TO NOWHERE |
| 3 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | POS 016 GLENGARY 2 |
| 3 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | POS 017 GLENGARY |
| 22 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | WINTER RIDGE |
| 21 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | STRONG |
| 20 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | GEOLOGICAL |
| 14 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | SAND RIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Hope: 18 occurrences, 6 prospects, 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alamo Mine | Lead, Iron, Gold, Copper, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Alamo Prospect | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Malachite | |
| Auxer Property Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead | Producer | 1956 | |
| Black Bear | Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Bonner Vein | Gold, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite | |
| Campbell Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Complex | Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Eagen | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| King Solomon Property | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite | |
| Marguerite Prospect | Lead, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hope in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | 1 killed | The broadcast media reported that a 21 foot boat with 10 people capsized on Lake Pend Oreille with 1 fatality. There were high waves due to a passing thunderstorm with an estimated 30 mph wind gusts. |
| August 1998 | Wildfire | Hope | $5,000 | Lighting sparked three fires in the vicnity of Hope, each about an acre in size. Two small fires also started in the Priest Lake area. |
| December 2023 | Flood | East Hope | $1,000 | Lightning Creek flooding led to washout of Forest Service Road 419 North of Clark Fork, Idaho. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | $100 | Emergency management office reported a tree down in Hope Idaho. |
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.
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 Hope | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1512574 | 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 396664. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.








