Mount Hope, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Morehead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40351. It stands on Carpenter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bangor quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mount Hope within Rowan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1929 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:48000
1935 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Mount Hope (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,418 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	15
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	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
4 September 2002	Smoking	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	DEVILS SPA
27 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	LAKESIDE
25 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	LOCKEGEE ROAD
14 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	ZILPO
1 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	LOCKEGEE
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHITTS ACRES
6 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	PARAGON CAMPGROUND FIRE
3 July 2012	Natural	7.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	COMBS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rowan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mount Hope (historical): 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
D Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Barnett Shale	Clay	Prospect
Zag Shale	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Rowan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bangor	0.6 miles	11
Paragon	2.4 miles	11
Lick Fork	3.6 miles	11
Cogswell	4.6 miles	11
Craney	4.9 miles	11
Lakeview Heights	7.6 miles	11
Bluestone	7.7 miles	11
Clearfield	7.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2127160. 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.