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Welcome to Mount Hope ...

Mount Hope is located in Orange County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mount Hope, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1816.

A typical abbreviation for Mount Hope: Mt. Hope

Mount Hope is 820 feet [250 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Mount Hope lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Mount Hope: 845 & 329<3>

Communities Also Named Mount Hope ...

While we believe that this Mount Hope is located in Orange County, we know of another 2 New York communities named Mount Hope. Those communities are located in the following counties: Washington and Westchester County.

Beyond New York, 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, Missouri (2), Nevada, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 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.

Websites for Mount Hope ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.orangeny.org/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Mount Hope, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Mount Hope ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mount Hope.

  • Palm Tree
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Tree
    • Palm Tree is located in Orange County
  • Kiryas Joel
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiryas Joel
    • Kiryas Joel is located in Orange County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 28,953 people
  • Middletown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Monroe
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Port Jervis
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Warwick
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Walden
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Walden have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walden
    • Walden is located in Orange County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,620 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walden <4>
  • Monticello
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Washingtonville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Goshen
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goshen have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
    • Goshen is located in Orange County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,337 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goshen <4>

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mount Hope. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mount Hope.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mount Hope. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mount Hope.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Hope. See our Newspapers Page for Mount Hope.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Mount Hope ...

Looking for more information about Mount Hope? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Mount Hope, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Mount Hope.

Adding Mount Hope to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mount Hope in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Mount Hope was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

X2X - From that list, the Mount Hope post office opened in 1816.

We also found Mount Hope in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Mount Hope. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Orange County: www.co.orange.ny.us/

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New York's counties, including Orange, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mount Hope - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 845 code has been Overlayed with the 329 area code. New phone numbers in the Mount Hope area will be assigned with one of these codes: 845 or 329. As a result, placing a call in the Mount Hope area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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