Hopewell is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Greenup County,

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. It lies at an elevation of 561 feet (171 m). A post office operated in the community from 1874 to 1957. It's named Hopewell because an early resident hoped his iron furnace operation would be as successful as that of one in Pennsylvania (now the

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County, Pennsylvania, Berks County, near Elverson, Pennsylvania, is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation, whose operations were based around a charcoal-fire ...

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* Unincorporated communities in Greenup County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{GreenupCountyKY-geo-stub