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Hopewell, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. It stands on Oldham Branch. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Hopewell within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,110 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 7 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011317
9 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 530
9 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4,931 acresLivingston AreaARBOR FIRE
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 959
30 September 2011Natural20 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 956

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopewell in 1 storm report in 1997: 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
June 1997Flash FloodHopewell$5,000High water on HWY 287

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Shady Grove2.6 miles11
Arbor4.3 miles10
Plainview5.8 miles11
Berea5.9 miles10
Center Grove6.4 miles9
Crockett6.5 miles10
Fodice6.7 miles11
Cut6.8 miles9

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 Q14710507The 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 1382023. 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.

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.