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New Hope, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Personville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75846. The Survey maps it on the Farrar quadrangle.

New Hope within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

59 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1996 and 2019, burning about 850 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESMORELAND
26 September 2011Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 581 FIRE
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9103
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTIAL AID WEST MORELY POWER PLANT
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest Service254
30 August 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service188
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8223

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood, 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
April 2023HailNew Hope$5,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Hope$4,000Power lines were down across FM 1512 to the east of Lake Limestone with power outages experienced in the area.
October 2013FloodNew Hope-Flooding continued across mainly the southern half of Limestone County after 4-11 of rain fell over the area. The water took several hours to recede. Several roads remained closed and some roads were damaged by the flood waters.
May 2003HailNew Hope-Occurred on the east side of Lake Limestone.

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Farrar3.1 miles7
Fair Oaks5.4 miles7
Old Union7.2 miles7
Personville7.6 miles8
Lost Prairie7.7 miles7
Oletha7.9 miles7
Seale8.3 miles8
Center10.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380890. 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.