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Hope, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Haw Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47246. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle. 2,099 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Hope within Bartholomew County

On record in 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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hope fell from 2,102 to 2,099 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,102
20202,099-3 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hope between 2001 and 2005, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 November 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hope: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cave PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sphalerite OccurrenceZinc, SulfurOccurrenceSphalerite

Every working recorded in Bartholomew County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hope in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2005Tornado (F1)Hope$100,000A strong F3 tornado touched down in northern Bartholomew county on 15 November 2005, continuing into southeast Shelby county, where it would do the majority of its damage. No one was killed by this powerful tornado, despite areas of severe damage, and only one minor injury was reported. A resident sustained an ankle injury when moving quickly down into his basement with his family to take cover. The worst damage along the tornado's path took place along and near Vandalia Road just east of the town of Geneva, where a large hog farm was severely damaged, and an old farm house was blown off its foundation. The structural integrity of the destroyed home was insufficient to justify a violent rating. Around 25 properties were damaged in this largely rural area, with six declared total losses.
March 2006LightningHope$60,000The home of Pauly Quillen Yeadon, 72, was struck by lightning and severely damaged by the ensuing fire early on the morning of 12 March 2006. Three separate fire departments responded to the call, and managed to extinguish the fire, but not before it damaged the entire second floor. The first floor suffered significant water damage.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHope$25,000Trees were down on houses in the Hope area due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The power was reported out as well.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHope$10,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindHope$7,000Trees were downed in location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHope$5,000Power lines downed by falling tree limbs due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2010HailHope$500One and a half inch sized hail broke out a back windshield in this location.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHope$500A 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated in this location. It was accompanied by torrential rainfall and water was observed on roads. Some traffic was down to one lane.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHope$500Several trees blown down again.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindHope$500no account filed
November 2010Thunderstorm WindHope$100A 4 foot section of wood fencing was blown over into an adjacent backyard on Elm Street due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindHope-A 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust was accompanied by quarter inch hail.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHope-A spotter estimated a wind gust to 70 MPH in Hope, Indiana.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHope-Trees were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Time of this event is estimated.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHope-Trees were downed.
July 2012HailHope-no account filed
May 2011HailHope-no account filed
April 2010HailHope-no account filed
April 2010HailHope-no account filed
May 2009HailHope-no account filed
May 2006HailHope-no account filed
May 1996HailHope-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bartholomew 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Old Saint Louis1.4 miles15
Schaefer Lake1.9 miles11
Rugby3.0 miles11
Nortonburg3.7 miles15
Saint Louis Crossing4.1 miles15
Hartsville4.6 miles11
Newbern4.9 miles11
Clifford5.4 miles15

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 HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q925321The 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 436432. 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.