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.
Population over time
2 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 129 | |
| 2020 | 139 | +10 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2001Regional 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 ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HURST FIRE |
| 8 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HALISY FIRE |
| 11 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Gap Roadcut | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Hope | - | There was a tree down on Gap Knob Road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Hope | - | A tree and power lines were down between Church and Center Streets. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Hope | - | Telephone poles were downed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical) | 1.5 miles | 9 | |
| Gethsemane | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Clarktown (historical) | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| New Haven | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Blue Gap | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Culvertown | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Howardstown | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Greenbrier | 7.2 miles | 8 |
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 Hope | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6041485 | The 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.



