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New Hope, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Amherst town. It lies in ZIP code area 54407. The Survey maps it on the New Hope quadrangle.

New Hope within Portage County

On record in New Hope

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1992 and 2018, burning about 189 acres in total. 3 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
12 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY RR FIRE #1
7 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPAVELSKI BALER FIRE
5 August 2012Smoking2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 10 WESTBOUND FIRE
28 August 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRANSIT FIRE
14 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Hope-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Amherst Junction. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Nelsonville2.5 miles6
Amherst Junction3.5 miles6
Amherst3.8 miles6
Lake Emily (historical)4.2 miles6
Garfield4.3 miles7
Peru4.7 miles7
Fancher7.0 miles6
Custer8.6 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1570222. 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.