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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.

Hopetown within Ross County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Hopetown, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Hopetown, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

19 since 2002

The 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 burning8
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13945
17 August 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15231
16 August 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15230
3 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8367
21 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15214
27 April 2009Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Smoking1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15450

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,846 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131895F. L. S.Ross County
Specimen of Puccinia tanaceti DC.Puccinia tanaceti DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
Specimen of Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum dumosum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom1845L. L. Pontius3 mi E of Kingston.
A photograph of the species Euaesthetus iripennis, not of this specimenEuaesthetus iripennis Casey, 18841874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Myrmedonia loricata, not of this specimenMyrmedonia loricata Casey, 18931874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Passiflora lutea, not of this specimenPassiflora lutea L.1885Safford, William EdwinChillicothe
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1896Selby, A. D.Chillicothe
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.1896Selby A. D.Chillicothe
A photograph of the species Elanoides forficatus, not of this specimenElanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Seip, J. (John)Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901not recordedRoss, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophophanes Kaup, not of this specimenLophophanes Kaup, 18291901Henninger, 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 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blazer QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
N3 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
N3 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant Number 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ross County

Storms nearby

1 since 2025

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025HailHopetown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ross 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
Eustis (historical)0.5 miles15
Franklin (historical)1.0 miles15
Metzger1.5 miles13
Riton (historical)1.8 miles15
Delano2.2 miles13
Seymoreville (historical)2.8 miles15
Chillicothe3.2 miles15
Brewer Heights3.4 miles14

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 HopetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133836The 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.