Hope, Alaska

Hope is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

[citation needed] Hope is located in the Seward Recording District.

Hope lies on the northern end of Kenai Peninsula, on the south shore of the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet.

[5] Hope has a dry-summer continental subarctic climate (Köppen Dsc).

"Hope City" was a mining camp for Resurrection Creek, established in 1896.

It resides in the Historic Hope schoolhouse, originally built in 1938.

53.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

There were none of the families and 11.7% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 100.0% of those over 64.

Approximately one-fourth of homes use individual water wells and septic tank systems, and are fully plumbed.

The school and local retail businesses provide the only employment in Hope.

Hope is accessible from the Seward Highway 17 miles (27 km) to the southeast.

The state-owned Hope Airport has a gravel airstrip measuring 2,000 by 90 feet (610 by 27 m).

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Kenai Peninsula Borough map