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Wade Hampton Census Area
 Wade
Hampton Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of
the 2010 census, the population was 7,459. It is part of the unorganized borough
and therefore has no borough seat. Its largest community is the city of Hooper
Bay, on the Bering Sea coast.
The area was defined and named in 1913 for Wade Hampton III, an American Civil
War soldier, Governor and United States Senator from the state of South
Carolina. Judge John Randolph Tucker, appointed by President Woodrow Wilson that
year, named the area in honor of his wife's father, Hampton, who had died a
decade earlier.
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