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Little Hope, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75494. It stands on Murphy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cartwright quadrangle.

Little Hope within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Little Hope between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,540 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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 burning119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Smoking14
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service595 N FM 2689 120316
9 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service65_09
5 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 647
26 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 177
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9252013
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER FEEDER
24 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service72

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Hope in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindLittle Hope-A tree was down blocking Hwy 852 in the Perryville community.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Pine Mills3.1 miles12
East Point4.2 miles12
Ogburn4.6 miles14
Oak Grove5.5 miles12
Stout6.7 miles12
Hainesville7.1 miles12
Perryville7.9 miles14
Cartwright8.8 miles12

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 Little HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119854048The 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 1380875. 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.