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Hope, Wisconsin

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cottage Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 53527. The Survey maps it on the Cottage Grove quadrangle. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Hope within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

33 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Hope between 2013 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources256
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1824118
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources239
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTATE ROAD 73 DITCH
3 August 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1919678
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1818632
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203
19 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019367

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hope: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kampmeier QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kreuger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Milwaukee Street QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hope in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
June 2025FloodHope$2,000Some street flooding in the Madison area including the two right lanes of southbound |I-39/90 closed.

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Vilas2.7 miles26
Cottage Grove3.0 miles26
Door Creek3.4 miles26
Taylors Corners3.5 miles26
McFarland3.6 miles23
Lake Waubesa3.6 miles23
Seminary Springs3.9 miles26
Monona4.7 miles23

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 HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5899002The 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 1566678. 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.

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.