Hope

History

"Hope City" was a mining camp for Resurrection Creek, established in 1896. The Hope post office began operating in 1897. Portions of the town were destroyed in the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. There are two community associations. The Hope Community Library was established in 1987. It resides in the Historic Hope schoolhouse, originally built in 1938.

Geography

Hope is located at (60.920280, -149.64028) (Sec. 33, T010N, R002W, Seward Meridian). 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. The community lies at the end of the Hope Highway, northwest of the Seward Highway, near the mouth of Resurrection Creek. Winter temperatures range from ; summer temperatures vary from . Average annual precipitation is . According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.13%, are water. The CDP includes the settlement of Hope in the valley of Resurrection Creek and extends east and west to the ridgecrests that define the valley. To the south it extends up Resurrection Creek to Palmer Creek on the east side and Gold Gulch on the west side. It is bordered to the east by the Sunrise CDP.

Most-observed species

• Bald Eagle

  Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  517
• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  480
• Dark-eyed Junco

  Junco hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  479
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  416
• Orange-crowned Warbler

  Leiothlypis celata (Say, 1822) · Aves
  377
• Hermit Thrush

  Catharus guttatus (Pallas, 1811) · Aves
  358
• Yellow-rumped Warbler

  Setophaga coronata (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  343
• Black-billed Magpie

  Pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823) · Aves
  320

Largest nearby schools

• Hope School
  Other · Hope · 21 students · 10.5:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.7 — 2026-09-28
  23 km SSW of Susitna, Alaska
• M 2.5 — 2026-09-28
  23 km SSW of Susitna, Alaska
• M 2.9 — 2026-09-27
  24 km WSW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
• M 3.2 — 2026-09-23
  21 km SW of Susitna, Alaska
• M 2.6 — 2026-09-21
  2 km W of Big Lake, Alaska
• M 2.6 — 2026-09-18
  19 km N of Cooper Landing, Alaska