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New Hope, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. It stands on Cat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville West quadrangle. It stands 489 feet above sea level.

New Hope within Cherokee 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

469 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 469 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,247 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 19 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 burning278
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Arson/incendiarism19
Power generation/transmission/distribution19
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7127
9 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4462 CR 3108
8 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 229
8 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service#7048

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Hope: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Hawes TractIronUnknown
Mount HavenIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Hume1.9 miles10
Mountain Heaven2.8 miles10
Pine Grove3.1 miles10
Jacksonville3.4 miles10
Ironton3.5 miles10
Lake View3.6 miles10
Craft3.9 miles12
Church Hill4.6 miles10

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 New HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076543The 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 1380891. 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.