unincorporated community
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Texas
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, United States. According to the
Handbook of Texas
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, the community had a population of 22 in 2000.
History
Hopewell was established before 1900, but it is unknown who founded it. Hopewell was never more than a church and a few houses at its peak in 1930. Most of the residents moved during World War II, but a few residents remained until the 1990s when it was a dispersed community. Its most recent population estimate was 22, which was taken in 2000.