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New Hope, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mineola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75773. The Survey maps it on the Mineola quadrangle.

New Hope within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

209 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,159 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 burning122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6230
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
4 September 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flash flood. 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 2016Flash FloodNew Hope-Farm to Market Road 1804 south of Highway 80 to the Sabine River at the Smith County line was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Hoard1.9 miles12
Mineola3.7 miles12
Hainesville5.1 miles12
West Mineola5.4 miles15
Crow6.4 miles12
Ben6.7 miles15
Fada7.3 miles12
Fouke7.9 miles12

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 Q119854044The 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 1378742. 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.