BlockHopewell, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Greenup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41143. It stands on Crane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oldtown quadrangle.
On record in Hopewell
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Hopewell Bridge, Spanning Little Sandy River, Hopewellfederal building survey, 12 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Oldtown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
125 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,336 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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 | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | AA HAYFIELD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopewell in 2 storm reports in 2018: 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Hopewell | $2,000 | Flash flooding along Sandsuck Creek closed a section of Route 207. Three Prong Branch flooded, closing Three Prong Road. Big Lost Creek Road was closed due to high water along Lost Creek. High water also closed the intersection of Route 7 and Route 784. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Hopewell | $500 | High water impacted the intersection of Route 1 and Route 784. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508279. 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.