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Hopewell, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 8. It lies in ZIP code area 67557. The Survey maps it on the Hopewell quadrangle. It stands 2,044 feet above sea level.

Hopewell within Pratt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell between 2007 and 2020, burning about 507 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service60
29 March 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service23
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service25
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service26
4 November 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresKansas CountiesLUTE'S CRP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pratt County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopewell in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 14 hail, 6 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
May 2007Tornado (EF3)Hopewell1 killed, 1 hurtThis tornado moved across out of southeast Edwards county at 2148 CST and grew into a large tornado of a little more than a mile wide. A male was killed near Hopewell as a basement wall collapsed on him when his home was demolished. Very little of the home was left visible.
May 2002Tornado (F2)Hopewell$500,000This tornado moved in from Kiowa county. No injuries due to adequate warning.
May 1996HailHopewell$50,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHopewell-Winds were estimated at 60 MPH.
April 2015HailHopewell-The ground was covered by the hail.
April 2009HailHopewell-The hail was reported to be soft and mushy.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Hopewell-This tornado moved out of Edwards county and passed over mainly farmland.
May 2008Tornado (EF2)Hopewell-This large tornado moved out of Edwards county and did EF2 damage to a house, a pivot irrigation sprinkler and to trees. It then moved into Stafford county at 925 PM CDT.
May 2007Tornado (EF2)Hopewell-This tornado did EF2 damage to farms, trees and pivot irrigation sprinklers. It occurred in very close proximately to a tornado less than 24 hours earlier (less than 1/2 of a mile). It into the county from Edwards county and then moved into Stafford county at 1842 CST.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Hopewell-This tornado did not hit anything.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHopewell-Dime-size hail was also reported.
June 2018HailHopewell-no account filed
April 2009HailHopewell-no account filed
August 2007HailHopewell-no account filed
June 2004HailHopewell-no account filed
May 2002HailHopewell-no account filed
May 1999HailHopewell-no account filed
May 1996HailHopewell-no account filed
May 1996HailHopewell-no account filed
May 1996HailHopewell-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHopewell-no account filed
May 1996HailHopewell-no account filed
April 1994HailHopewell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pratt 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
Byers6.9 miles14
Cullison12.9 miles14
Iuka14.8 miles14
Pratt17.6 miles14
Natrona18.7 miles14
Springvale20.4 miles14
Croft20.8 miles14
Coats22.2 miles14

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 HopewellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14689594The 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 484652. 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.