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New Hope, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Chandler-Brownsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75756. The Survey maps it on the Brownsboro quadrangle. It stands 489 feet above sea level.

New Hope within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,406 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Smoking18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 488
26 September 2014Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service#7052
26 September 1997Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7130
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson 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
Antioch2.1 miles15
Leagueville3.4 miles15
Brownsboro3.7 miles13
Union Hill4.0 miles13
Moore Station5.0 miles15
Evelyn5.1 miles13
Opelika5.2 miles13
Sunrise Shores6.6 miles15

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 Q22076545The 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 1380248. 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.