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Hopewell, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Hopewell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43746. The Survey maps it on the Gratiot quadrangle. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Hopewell within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hopewell, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Hopewell, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Old Covered Bridge, West of Zanesville Post Office, U.S. Highway 40, Hopewell, Muskingum County, OH
Old Covered Bridge, West of Zanesville Post Office, U.S. Highway 40, Hopewell, Muskingum County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

19 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell between 2012 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15236
6 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15769
2 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12325
19 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12326
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15752
16 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15210
21 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15671
18 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1621

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 260 shown

Museums hold 260 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hopewell between 1873 and 1974: 205 Animalia, 30 Plantae, 17 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Bogue, E.E., Buker, W. 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 Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.1893Jones, H.L.Toboso
Specimen of Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932 (fossil)1916Wilber StoutVanport. Hopewell Township
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Fissidens adianthoides, not of this specimenFissidens adianthoides Hedw.1892W. C. WernerFultonham
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
A photograph of the species Cladonia symphycarpa, not of this specimenCladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.1894Bogue, E.E.Black Hand
A photograph of the species Lysimachia quadriflora, not of this specimenLysimachia quadriflora Sims1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Smilax herbacea, not of this specimenSmilax herbacea L.1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Gyromitra brunnea, not of this specimenGyromitra brunnea Underw.1909Moore S. R.Zanesville
A photograph of the species Davainea Blanchard, not of this specimenDavainea Blanchard, 18911912E. GayJanesville
Aglaostigma Kirby, 18821920A.E. Miller
Macrophya Dahlbom, 18351920A.E. Miller

All 260 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hopewell: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Brookville UnderclayTitanium, Silica, Iron, AluminumOccurrence1850

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

8 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Hopewell in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindHopewell$25,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHopewell$4,000Several trees down near Gratiot.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHopewell$2,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHopewell$2,000A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHopewell$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHopewell$500Law enforcement reported a tree down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHopewell-Large oak tree down.
July 2005HailHopewell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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
Mount Sterling1.1 miles12
Wesley2.1 miles12
Opera (historical)3.2 miles12
Cottage Hill4.3 miles11
Meadow Farm4.5 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)4.9 miles11
Dillon View5.0 miles13
Claypools (historical)5.8 miles11

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 HopewellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5900191The 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 1064863. 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.