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Hope, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hope City. It lies in ZIP code area 58046. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

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Hope within Steele County

On record in Hope

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hope grew from 258 to 272 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
2010258
2020272+14 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hope in 2015, burning about 160 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
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
3 May 2015Natural160 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictROGERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steele County

Storms near this place

60 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hope in 66 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 34 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHope$500,000There was a report of quarter size hail, 1.50 inches of rain, and full grown pine trees broken in half. The baseball field scoreboard was blown down and the metal batting cage was blown across two baseball diamonds. Extensive crop damage occurred throughout Hugo Township.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindHope$100,000Numerous trees were blown down and an 85 foot steel grain bin was knocked down onto the railroad tracks. The bin had an 83,000 bushel capacity.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHope$40,000A steel grain bin was blown off its foundation and tumbled for a quarter of a mile.
August 2011Flash FloodHope$25,000Three to six inches of rain fell over the Hope area, causing street and basement flooding. Numerous county and local township roads were flooded across Willow Lake and Carpenter townships.
August 2011FloodHope$10,000After the 3 to 6 inches of rain fell over the Hope area, overland flooding kept numerous roads closed.
May 2010FloodHope$10,000Overland flow covered portions of North Dakota highway 32 near the Barnes County line. The golf course near Hope was also damaged by high water.
August 2008HailHope$5,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHope$2,000Trees were blown down in Hope.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHope$500Trees were blown down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHope-Measured wind gust at the Hope NDAWN.
July 2025HailHope-Received a report of hail up to 1 inch in diameter.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHope-NDAWN station 5 NE Hope reported a 76 mph wind gust. Mesonet station 321686 Hope ND NDAWN.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHope-Tree Damage reported by the public in Steele county.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHope-Several large branches were blown down in farm yards across northwest Edendale Township.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Hope-This tornado was likely wrapped in downburst winds, heavy rain, and hail as it tracked to the northeast. The tornado snapped poplar trees in a shelterbelt and scattered large branches across county road 5 and into an adjacent field for up to 300 yards. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHope-A personal weather station reported a peak wind of 71 mph. The peak occurred between 1720 and 1730 CST and was likely associated with the rear flank downdraft from a nearby Quasi-Linear Convective System (QLCS) tornado.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHope-Very heavy rain and strong winds impacted central Melrose Township, flattening crops over several sections of farmland.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindHope-Strong wind gusts were associated with the rear flank shelf cloud. Some dime to nickel sized hail fell as well.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindHope-Large tree branches were blown down around the town of Hope. One poplar tree was snapped at the golf course.
September 2017Funnel CloudHope-A persistent wall cloud with a brief funnel cloud were observed. The wall cloud was nearly rain wrapped.
June 2015HailHope-A large swath of hen egg sized hail fell across portions of Edendale Township.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHope-A yard light was snapped on a farmstead.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHope-More than 20 to 25 trees were uprooted in Hope. Three trees landed on cars and two trees landed on homes. The grain elevator was also damaged.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHope-A grain bin was damaged near Hope.
June 2010Tornado (EF2)Hope-The tornado tracked northward for nearly 7 miles, to around 1 mile north of Blabon. The tornado produced severe tree damage in field and farm shelterbelts located along its path. Rear flank downdraft winds also produced tree damage at the Hope golf course. Peak winds were estimated at 120 mph.
June 2010Tornado (EF2)Hope-The tornado tracked northeastward for nearly 3 miles to around 8 miles east-northeast of Hope. Numerous trees were severely damaged in shelterbelts. An abandoned farmhouse was collapsed and other farm buildings were damaged. Peak winds were estimated at 125 mph.
August 2008Funnel CloudHope-Two or more funnels formed southeast of Hope. The funnels moved slowly to the north-northwest and passed near Hope. The funnels were formed in fairly high based thunderstorms and were visible from a distance.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Hope-Multiple funnels were reported with one touching down briefly.
July 2007HailHope-Hail covered the ground. Damaging winds produced additional crop damage in Carpenter and Colgate Townships.
July 2007HailHope-Large branches were also blown down.
September 2006HailHope-Hail covered the ground.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHope-6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were broken off by the wind.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Hope-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHope-Doors were blown off buildings.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHope-Dozens of huge trees were blown down. Several homes were damaged by falling trees.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindHope-An 8 inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Hope-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
May 2019HailHope-no account filed
July 2017HailHope-no account filed
July 2017HailHope-no account filed
July 2011HailHope-no account filed
August 2008HailHope-no account filed
August 2008HailHope-no account filed
June 2006HailHope-no account filed
August 2006HailHope-no account filed
August 2006HailHope-no account filed
September 2005HailHope-no account filed
May 2004HailHope-no account filed
June 2004HailHope-no account filed
July 2004HailHope-no account filed
June 2003HailHope-no account filed
June 2002HailHope-no account filed
August 2002HailHope-no account filed
August 2002HailHope-no account filed
July 2001HailHope-no account filed
August 2001HailHope-no account filed
August 2001HailHope-no account filed
June 2000HailHope-no account filed
June 2000HailHope-no account filed
June 1999HailHope-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Steele 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
Colgate6.4 miles8
Blabon6.5 miles8
Sherbrooke9.6 miles8
Pickert9.6 miles8
Luverne12.3 miles8
Finley14.5 miles8
Interlaken (historical)18.4 miles8
Sharon21.0 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 HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2121949The 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 1029526. 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.