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Welcome to Hilltop ...

So far, we found very little information about Hilltop. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Hilltop to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Hilltop, please Contact Us.


Hilltop would have been located within present day Cochise County<2>.


We aren't confident of the location of Hilltop, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Hilltop, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1920.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Hilltop is 5,700 feet [1,737 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the elevation of Hilltop is about 1 mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Hilltop was located is in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Hilltop, you will leave Mountain Standard Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT). In addition, you will be moving from an area that does not observe daylight saving time to one that does.

Hilltop would have been located in the (520) area code.

Communities Also Named Hilltop ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Arizona communities named Hilltop: This one is located in Cochise County and the other is located in Mohave County.

Beyond Arizona, there are 49 communities that are also named Hilltop - they are located in Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois (2), Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky (3), Louisiana, Manitoba, Maryland (2), Michigan (3), Minnesota (2), Missouri (2), Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina (2), Ohio (4), Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee (4), Texas (4), Utah (2), Virginia, Washington (2), West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Hilltop.

Communities near Hilltop ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Hilltop.

  • Paradise
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
    • Paradise is located in Cochise County
  • Portal
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Camp Bowie ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Bowie
    • Camp Bowie is located in Cochise County
  • Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Bowie
    • Fort Bowie is located in Cochise County
  • Rodeo
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • San Simon
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Apache
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apache
    • Apache is located in Cochise County
  • Dos Cabezas
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dos Cabezas
    • Dos Cabezas is located in Cochise County
  • Sunizona
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunizona
    • Sunizona is located in Cochise County
  • Steins ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steins
    • Steins is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
    • Former name for Steins:
    • Stein's Pass

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Hilltop. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Hilltop.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Hilltop. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hilltop.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Hilltop. See our Newspapers Page for Hilltop.

Adding Hilltop to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Hilltop in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Hilltop was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Hilltop post office opened in 1920.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hilltop.

The official website for Cochise County: www.cochise.az.gov/

The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Hilltop, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Arizona's counties, including Cochise, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Hilltop - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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