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New Hope, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the New Haven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40052. It lies near Coon Hollow. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 545 feet above sea level.

New Hope within Nelson County

Population over time

2 figures

New Hope grew from 129 to 139 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
2010129
2020139+10 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 2001 and 2016, burning about 88 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 August 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHURST FIRE
8 March 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHALISY FIRE
11 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Hope: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blue Gap RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Nelson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Hope-There was a tree down on Gap Knob Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Hope-A tree and power lines were down between Church and Center Streets.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Hope-Telephone poles were downed.

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical)1.5 miles9
Gethsemane2.0 miles9
Clarktown (historical)2.5 miles8
New Haven4.7 miles9
Blue Gap4.9 miles9
Culvertown5.6 miles9
Howardstown6.1 miles9
Greenbrier7.2 miles8

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 New HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6041485The 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 499337. 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.

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.