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.
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 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Rosholt quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
98 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SMOKEY RR FIRE #1 |
| 7 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.3 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PAVELSKI BALER FIRE |
| 5 August 2012 | Smoking | 2.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 10 WESTBOUND FIRE |
| 28 August 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TRANSIT FIRE |
| 14 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Hope | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Amherst Junction. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nelsonville | 2.5 miles | 6 | |
| Amherst Junction | 3.5 miles | 6 | |
| Amherst | 3.8 miles | 6 | |
| Lake Emily (historical) | 4.2 miles | 6 | |
| Garfield | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Peru | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Fancher | 7.0 miles | 6 | |
| Custer | 8.6 miles | 7 |
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.



