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Location in Cumberland County and the state of North Carolina.

Hope Mills is a town in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.

Hope Mills is positioned in Cumberland County at 34 58 14 N 78 57 24 W (34.970679, -78.956603), south of Fayetteville, the county seat.

The town center is next to a dam on Little Rockfish Creek, forming Hope Mills Lake.

North Carolina Highway 59 (Main Street) runs through the center of the town, dominant north 5 miles (8 km) to U.S.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 7.0 square miles (18.2 km2), of which 6.9 square miles (18.0 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km2), or 1.40%, is water, including Hope Mills Lake. Chartered in 1891, Hope Mills can trace its beginning back to 1766, when due to the richness of natural water power and the abundance of timber, a lumber camp, saw mill, grist foundry and pottery company were established.

In 1839, assembly of the first cotton foundry powered by the Hope Mills Dam was instead of and was the beginning of a new era for the town.

Much of the tradition and the town's name itself can be attributed to the cotton milling trade that followed.

Before it was known as Hope Mills, the region was known as Little Rockfish Village and as Hope Mills Number One.

The Big Rockfish Presbyterian Church and Hope Mills Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Major lineage groups reported by Hope Mills inhabitants include Black or African American - 18%, German - 13%, Irish - 10%, English - 8%, Scots-Irish - 4%, Italian - 3%, Scottish - 3%, Puerto Rican - 3%, French - 2%, American Indian tribes, specified - 2%, Polish - 2%, Mexican - 2%, European - 1%, Other Hispanic or Latino - 1%, Korean - 1%, Lumbee - 1%, Norwegian - 1%, West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) - 1%, Dutch - 1%, French Canadian - 1%, Cherokee - 1% Hope Mills has its own police and fire departments and is only minutes away from four primary hospitals.

Five shopping centers, the historic downtown district, a postal service, two medical clinics, five elementary schools Baldwin Elementary, Rockfish Elementary, Collier Elementary Cashwell Elementary, two middle schools South View Middle and Hope Mills Middle, two high schools South View High and Gray's Creek High and more than twenty churches round out a improve in which to raise a family and appreciate life.

Hope Mills Lake, January 2009, after a rare snow flurry In the town, the populace was spread out with 32.1% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 37.0% from 25 to 44, 16.8% from 45 to 64, and 5.8% who were 65 years of age or older.

Hope Mills crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 9 years with violent crime increasing and property crime decreasing.

Based on this trend, the crime rate in Hope Mills for 2013 is expected to be lower than in 2010.

The town/city violent crime rate for Hope Mills in 2010 was higher than the nationwide violent crime rate average by 11.42%, and the town/city property crime rate in Hope Mills was higher than the nationwide property crime rate average by 129.31%.

In 2010 the town/city violent crime rate in Hope Mills was higher than the violent crime rate in North Carolina by 23.76%, and the town/city property crime rate in Hope Mills was higher than the property crime rate in North Carolina by 95.69%.

Hope Mills Crime Statistics Summary Report 2010 crime (actual data) and number of incidents: The projected crime rate data displayed above was generated from the trends and crime data available from previous years of actual reported data.

In this case, the Hope Mills crime report data for 2013 was projected from nine years of actual data.

The last year of actual available crime data, as reported above, was 2010.

The comparisons made herein are thus, only meaningful upon further examination of all variables that affect crime in each reported city, state or other reported jurisdiction.

Manna Church of Hope Mills, one of five sites of the Manna Church mega-church and senior pastor Michael Fletcher.

Big Rockfish Presbyterian Church has historic cemetery and is on the nationwide register of historic places.

Hope Mills Presbyterian Church First Baptist Church, Hope Mills Hope Mills Church of God a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Hope Mills town, North Carolina".

Hope Mills Town of Hope Mills official website Hope Mills Area Chamber of Commerce Sand - Spur Newspaper, presented by the Fayetteville Observer each Wednesday for Hope Mills The Hope Mills Bee, online printed announcement Municipalities and communities of Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States

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