Welcome to New Hope ...
New Hope is located in Portage County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of New Hope, you might consider that their post office opened in 1861.
New Hope is 1,160 feet [354 m] above sea level.<2>.
Time Zone: New Hope lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for New Hope: 715 & 534<3>
Communities Also Named New Hope ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 119 communities that are also named New Hope - they are located in Alabama (12), Arizona, Arkansas (11), California, Florida (4), Georgia (8), Illinois (3), Indiana (2), Kansas (2), Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Maryland (2), Minnesota, Mississippi (8), Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina (11), Ohio (2), Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina (3), South Dakota, Tennessee (17), Texas (15), Virginia (4) and West Virginia (2).
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for New Hope.
Communities near New Hope ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near New Hope.
- Stevens Point
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Stevens Point is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stevens Point
- Population from the 2020 Census: 25,949 people
- Plover
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Plover is located in Portage County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,252 people
- Waupaca
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Waupaca is located in Waupaca County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,857 people
- Whiting
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Whiting is located in Portage County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,704 people
- Manawa
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Manawa is located in Waupaca County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,269 people
- Iola
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Iola is located in Waupaca County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,190 people
- Amherst
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Amherst is located in Portage County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,082 people
- Tigerton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Tigerton is located in Shawano County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 702 people
- Park Ridge
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Park Ridge is located in Portage County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 496 people
- Rosholt
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Rosholt is located in Portage County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 481 people
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.
We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around New Hope. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for New Hope.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of New Hope. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around New Hope.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around New Hope. See our Newspapers Page for New Hope.
Adding New Hope to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of New Hope in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.
From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for New Hope was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the New Hope post office opened in 1861. The New Hope post office closed in 1904.
For more details, see References and Mentions for New Hope.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Portage, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around New Hope - it will be higher in some places and lower in others. |
| <3> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 715 code has been Overlayed with the 534 area code. New phone numbers in the New Hope area will be assigned with one of these codes: 715 or 534. As a result, placing a call in the New Hope area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |
| <4> | A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |