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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.

Hope within Dickinson 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 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.

YearPeople Change
2010368
2020317-51 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

36 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDickinson Countynot named
5 July 2015Arson/incendiarism105 acresKansas Forest Service2015096
2 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service19
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018086
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDickinson County2017076
6 April 2004Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

36 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Flash FloodHope1 killed, $300,000Six 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 2005Flash FloodHope$100,000Six inches of fast flowing water across some streets in Hope.
June 2005Heavy RainHope$100,000Reports of ponded water 6 to 7 inches deep over area roads including highway K-4.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindHope$25,000The 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 2005Flash FloodHope$6,000Numerous reports of fast flowing water over highway 4 with several cars in ditches.
May 2003HailHope$3,000Penny sized hail damed a vehicle and some windows.
June 2009Flash FloodHope$500Law Enforcement reported 1 foot of water across K4 west of Hope.
June 2009Flash FloodHope$500Law Enforcement reported 1 foot of water across K4 west of Hope.
May 2024HailHope-Ping pong ball size hail in town of Hope.
May 2023HailHope-Quarter sized hail reported.
April 2022Tornado (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 2017Thunderstorm WindHope-Estimated wind gust report.
May 2013Tornado (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 2004Flash FloodHope-Water was reported flowing over K4 highway west of Hope.
June 2004Flash FloodHope-Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. Water was reported running over Kansas highway 4 near Hope.
April 2026HailHope-no account filed
April 2025HailHope-no account filed
September 2019HailHope-no account filed
May 2016HailHope-no account filed
June 2011HailHope-no account filed
June 2011HailHope-no account filed
June 2011HailHope-no account filed
June 2011HailHope-no account filed
July 2011HailHope-no account filed
July 2011HailHope-no account filed
March 2009HailHope-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHope-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHope-no account filed
November 2005HailHope-no account filed
September 2004HailHope-no account filed
September 2004HailHope-no account filed
May 2003HailHope-no account filed
May 2002HailHope-no account filed
May 1999HailHope-no account filed
May 1999HailHope-no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F0)Hope-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Dillon3.7 miles17
Rishel5.3 miles16
Jacobs5.9 miles17
Shady Brook6.0 miles15
Herington7.2 miles15
Navarre7.5 miles15
Elmo8.1 miles17
Woodbine9.6 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 Q2463017The 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.