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Little Hope, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Dayton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54981. The Survey maps it on the Waupaca quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Little Hope within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Little Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 460 acres in total. 13 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
Debris and open burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use30
Fireworks15
Natural13
Smoking10
Other causes8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism4

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
4 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBURNING BEE
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2015Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPARFREYVILLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Hope in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2022HailLittle Hope-Half dollar size hail fell near King. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLittle Hope-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees near Waupaca. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLittle Hope-Thunderstorm winds downed and uprooted multiple trees and blew down a fence near Waupaca. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLittle Hope-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines south of Waupaca.

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Parfreyville1.2 miles8
King2.2 miles8
Rural2.4 miles8
Waupaca3.0 miles8
Chain O' Lakes3.3 miles8
Cobb Town6.9 miles8
Sheridan7.1 miles8
Granite Quarry (historical)7.2 miles8

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 Little HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6650345The 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 1568279. 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.