Mount Hope, Alabama
Unincorporated community
MountHope is located in Alabama
MountHope
Mount
Hope
MountHope is located in the United States
MountHope
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Hope
Coordinates: 34°27′30″N 87°28′54″W / 34.45833°N 87.48167°W / 34.45833; -87.48167
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyLawrence
Elevation
640 ft (200 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
35651
Area code(s)256 & 938
GNIS feature ID160152[1]

Mount Hope is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Alabama, United States.[1] Its ZIP code is 35651.[2]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
188094—
U.S. Decennial Census[3]

Mount Hope appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as an unincorporated community of 94 residents. This was the only time it appeared on census rolls.

1985 School Fire

In 1985, Mount Hope High School was burned down, forcing students to watch the school burn down helplessly; most of the students were woken up from their sleep to watch their school burn down in the dark of midnight. Classes were temporarily held in the current Mount Hope School, which is deteriorating due to the nearby Hatton School System and Tharptown School Systems; the high school was never reconstructed. The town was again demolished by the Hackleburg-Phil Campbell tornado of 2011. The tornado was at EF5 intensity as it struck Mount Hope.

Notable person

Mount Hope was the birthplace of Russell McWhortor Cunningham, acting governor of Alabama from 1904–1905.[4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Mount Hope, Lawrence County, Alabama". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved February 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Russell Cunningham". Alabama Department of Archives and History. August 4, 2009. Archived from the original on November 11, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2013.


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