Hope, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hope Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67451. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle. 317 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,398 feet above sea level.
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
- Pray Farmstead(s)listed 2025
Population over time
2 figuresHope fell from 368 to 317 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 | 368 | |
| 2020 | 317 | -51 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1889 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
36 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Hope between 2001 and 2018, burning about 436 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Dickinson County | not named |
| 5 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 105 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015096 |
| 2 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 19 |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018086 |
| 24 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Dickinson County | 2017076 |
| 6 April 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 6 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hope in 36 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 21 hail, 7 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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 2005 | Flash Flood | Hope | 1 killed, $300,000 | Six inches of fast flowing water over roads 6 miles south of Hope. One fatality occurred when a 37 year old man was swept away by rapidly flowing water after he exited his truck when the right front tire dropped off a low water bridge. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Hope | $100,000 | Six inches of fast flowing water across some streets in Hope. |
| June 2005 | Heavy Rain | Hope | $100,000 | Reports of ponded water 6 to 7 inches deep over area roads including highway K-4. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | $25,000 | The attached garage to a house near Hope, Kansas was completely destroyed. A separate work shop near the house also sustained major damage. An enclosed trailer was tossed in the air and deposited on its side 30 feet away. Many objects throughout the yard were also thrown about 100 yards as a result of 90 to 100 mph winds. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Hope | $6,000 | Numerous reports of fast flowing water over highway 4 with several cars in ditches. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hope | $3,000 | Penny sized hail damed a vehicle and some windows. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Hope | $500 | Law Enforcement reported 1 foot of water across K4 west of Hope. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Hope | $500 | Law Enforcement reported 1 foot of water across K4 west of Hope. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hope | - | Ping pong ball size hail in town of Hope. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Hope | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Hope | - | A NWS storm survey revealed damage to structures including homes from a tornado that formed around or shortly before 8 pm CDT just to the southeast of Hope, KS. The tornado tracked to the ENE passing approximately 2 miles north of Herington KS before moving into Morris county KS. EF1 damage was noted at 2 properties including garage damage to one home. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | - | Estimated wind gust report. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Hope | - | Report from Ramona volunteer FD of a brief tornado touchdown north of town in Dickinson County. No damage and circulation on ground was only visible briefly. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Hope | - | Water was reported flowing over K4 highway west of Hope. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Hope | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. Water was reported running over Kansas highway 4 near Hope. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | 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.
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 Q2463017 | 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 476981. 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.






