THE POINT HOPE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arctic Foothills setting.
Point Hope city has 5.02 square miles of land in North Slope Borough. Its Census boundary intersects Arctic Foothills.
Rolling Arctic hills and plateaus connect the coastal plain with the Brooks Range. Drainage is more defined and lakes less numerous than in the lower coastal landscape.
Regional context: Arctic Foothills ↗ · Classification from the Census boundary intersection
The Census reference point falls outside the regional layer’s mapped footprint. This classification uses the actual place-boundary intersection, with Arctic Foothills representing its largest mapped overlap. Shorelines and dataset boundaries can differ.
Point Hope and North Slope Borough
Point Hope is associated with North Slope Borough in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Point Hope by land and water
The Census records 0.07 square miles of water within Point Hope, or 1.4% of its total area. It is 5 percentage points lower than the 6.4% recorded for North Slope Borough. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Point Hope city has 3.1 times the land area of nearby Kivalina city (1.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

