Welcome to Mount Hope ...

Mount Hope is located in Lafayette County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mount Hope, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1846.

A typical abbreviation for Mount Hope: Mt. Hope

Time Zone: Mount Hope lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Mount Hope ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Missouri communities named Mount Hope: This one is located in Lafayette County and the other is located in Franklin County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 43 communities that are also named Mount Hope - they are located in Alabama (2), California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (3), Kentucky, Maine, Maryland (2), Massachusetts, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New York (3), Ohio (2), Ontario (2), Pennsylvania (7), Prince Edward Island, Tennessee (2), Virginia, Washington, West Virginia (4) and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mount Hope.

Adding Mount Hope to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mount Hope in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Mount Hope was in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

We also found Mount Hope in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mount Hope.