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Hopewell, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75457. The Survey maps it on the New Hope quadrangle.

Hopewell within Franklin County

On record in Hopewell

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 801 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning132
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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
9 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6289
29 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUTHRIE
28 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 243
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-116

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hopewell: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopewell in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 lightning. 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
February 2012LightningHopewell$20,000A storage building on FM. 21 near CR. 4145 was struck by lightning and engulfed in flames.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Macon2.5 miles9
Majors3.6 miles9
Purley5.9 miles9
Mount Vernon6.0 miles8
Union6.4 miles8
New Hope7.0 miles9
Cypress7.9 miles9
Clearwater8.5 miles13

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 Q5900089The 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 1378469. 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.

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.