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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Hopedale, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43976. The Survey maps it on the Cadiz quadrangle. 920 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,158 feet above sea level.

Hopedale within Harrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Hopedale fell from 950 to 920 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. 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
2010950
2020920-30 (-3%)

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hopedale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hopedale, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 nearby

7 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hopedale between 2011 and 2017, burning about 28 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
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources586
25 March 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 February 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3610
21 February 2017Debris and open burning17 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7095
18 February 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 November 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3105

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

11 of 17 shown

Museums hold 17 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hopedale between 1889 and 1964: 10 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 11 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Fink, B., H. Waters and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ulmus americana L.Ulmus americana L.1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Specimen of Uncinula macrospora PeckUncinula macrospora Peck1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
A photograph of the species Sinapis arvensis, not of this specimenSinapis arvensis L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
Arthropoda1934H. WatersHopedale, Plot 128
A photograph of the species Grapholita eclipsana, not of this specimenGrapholita eclipsana (Zeller, 1875)1934Waters, H.Hopedale
A photograph of the species Cambarincola philadelphicus, not of this specimenCambarincola philadelphicus (Leidy, 1851)1960P. Holt & V. Holt3.9 mi. W of Cadiz on US 36 & 250, small clay stream
A photograph of the species Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis, not of this specimenGnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis (Riley, 1869)1964Miller, W.E.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Gnorimoschema salinaris, not of this specimenGnorimoschema salinaris Busck, 19111964Miller, W.E.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Verbena urticifolia, not of this specimenVerbena urticifolia L.1964Andrew R. MoldenkeCadiz

All 17 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

14 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Hopedale in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2006Thunderstorm WindHopedale$20,000Trees blown down. Some fell onto cars and houses in Cadiz and Hopedale.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHopedale$7,000Several trees reported down, while one fell on a car.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindHopedale$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines.
May 1997Flash FloodHopedale$4,000Roads and a few basements were flooded.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHopedale$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and power lines.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHopedale-Many large trees reported down by a local emergency manager.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHopedale-Social media post of a large tree limb down in Hopedale.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindHopedale-Trees reported down on County Road 51 by EMA.
August 1998HailHopedale-Hail, up to the size of half-dollars, covered the ground.
April 2026HailHopedale-no account filed
April 2026HailHopedale-no account filed
June 2010HailHopedale-no account filed
June 2010HailHopedale-no account filed
August 1996HailHopedale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Hares Court0.3 miles17
Parlatt (historical)1.5 miles17
Cherry Valley2.0 miles17
Carman2.5 miles17
Rexford2.5 miles17
Pittsburgh Junction2.7 miles17
Liggett Crossing2.8 miles17
Cadiz Junction2.8 miles17

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 HopedaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2224953The 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 1064861. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.