Hopetown, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Kingston quadrangle.
Then and now
1906 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1906 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1906 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
19 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Hopetown between 2002 and 2020, burning about 40 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 burning | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13945 |
| 17 August 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15231 |
| 16 August 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15230 |
| 3 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8367 |
| 21 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15214 |
| 27 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Smoking | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15450 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,846 shownMuseums hold 1,846 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hopetown between 1845 and 1975: 1,387 Animalia, 354 Fungi, 94 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. Cronquist, A. Miller 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813 | 1895 | F. L. S. | Ross County |
![]() | Puccinia tanaceti DC. | 1895 | F. L. Stevens | Ross County |
![]() | Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC. | 1895 | F. L. Stevens | Ross County |
![]() | Symphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom | 1845 | L. L. Pontius | 3 mi E of Kingston. |
![]() | Euaesthetus iripennis Casey, 1884 | 1874 | [Not Stated] | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Myrmedonia loricata Casey, 1893 | 1874 | [Not Stated] | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Passiflora lutea L. | 1885 | Safford, William Edwin | Chillicothe |
![]() | Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle | 1896 | Selby, A. D. | Chillicothe |
| Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc. | 1896 | Selby A. D. | Chillicothe | |
![]() | Elanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | Seip, J. (John) | Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1901 | not recorded | Ross, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Lophophanes Kaup, 1829 | 1901 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Ross, Ohio, USA |
All 1,846 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
5 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hopetown: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blazer Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| N3 Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| N3 Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Plant Number 6 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Plant Number 6 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
1 since 2025The National Weather Service names Hopetown in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Hail | Hopetown | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eustis (historical) | 0.5 miles | 15 | |
| Franklin (historical) | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Metzger | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Riton (historical) | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Delano | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Seymoreville (historical) | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Chillicothe | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Brewer Heights | 3.4 miles | 14 |
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 Hopetown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133836 | 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 1064862. 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.
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.























