Hope (Alaska)

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Hope is a census -designated place on the northern coast of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The village is situated on the southern shore of Turnagain Arm, an inlet of Cook Inlets, about 30 km away from the Seward Highway. The Resurrection Creek flows near Hope in the bay. About 6% of the 137 residents are Alaska Natives or their descendants.

The settlement was founded in 1896 with the name " Hope City ", as had been found in the Resurrection Creek gold. 1897 a post office was opened. Parts of the town were destroyed during the Good Friday earthquake in 1964.

A quarter of the houses has its own source and is not connected to the public water supply. The school in which 14 students (as of 2000) are taught, uses its own spring water system. Many houses are inhabited only seasonally. The nearest hospital is the Central Peninsula General Hospital in Soldotna

The school and the local retailers are the only employer in the village. Chance nor gold is mined. A gravel airstrip is owned by the state.

List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska Federal Information Processing Standards Census-designated place Soldotna, Alaska

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