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New Hope, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the De Kalb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75559. It stands on Cooper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hodgson quadrangle.

New Hope within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,883 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 burning123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Other causes1

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 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service528
6 September 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBACKYARD
4 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6218
3 September 2002Debris and open burning190 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 176
27 September 2006Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 656
25 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL
24 September 2016Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6156

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie 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
Tuckers Corner1.1 miles11
Hodgson2.3 miles11
Hubbard3.8 miles11
College Hill5.1 miles11
Dalby Springs5.2 miles11
Garland5.4 miles9
De Kalb6.5 miles10
Oak Grove6.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1363718. 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.