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New Hope, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75972. It stands on Black Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chireno North quadrangle.

New Hope within San Augustine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,187 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
9 September 2013Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7118
6 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 687
29 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 251
1 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 608
1 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 607
9 August 2012Natural1.0 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 9080

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Augustine 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
Denning2.6 miles11
Union4.3 miles11
Ironosa4.5 miles11
Camp Worth (historical)4.6 miles11
Redland4.7 miles11
Harmony6.2 miles11
San Augustine8.4 miles12
Bland Lake8.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034903. 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.