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Ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona

Ghost town in Arizona, United States
Tip Top, Arizona
Ghost town
Northern end of Tip Top, circa 1888Northern end of Tip Top, circa 1888
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Coordinates: 34°03′03″N 112°14′49″W / 34.05083°N 112.24694°W / 34.05083; -112.24694
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
CountyYavapai
Founded1876
Abandoned1895
Elevation2,510 ft (765 m)
Population
 • Total0
Time zoneUTC-7 (MST (no DST))
Post Office openedAugust 12, 1880
Post Office closedFebruary 14, 1895

Tip Top is a ghost town in Yavapai County in the U.S. state of Arizona. The town was settled in 1876 in what was then the Arizona Territory.

History

Primarily a silver-mining town, it had a post office from August 12, 1880, until February 14, 1895. The town was founded after Jack Moore and Bill Corning struck a significant lode of silver in 1875.

The nearby ghost town of Gillett was the original mill site for the ore from the Tip Top mine.

Tip Top at its peak had over 500 residents and was one of the largest towns in Arizona at the time.

Tip Top's population was 65 in 1890.

Many ruins still exist in Tip Top today.

Tip Top is the setting for The Nightjar Women, the last story in the weird western anthology Merkabah Rider: Tales of a High Planes Drifter by Edward M. Erdelac.

Old corral at Tip Top, Arizona

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tip Top (historical)
  2. Sherman, James E.; Barbara H. Sherman (1969). "Tip Top". Ghost Towns of Arizona (First ed.). University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 151–152. ISBN 0-8061-0843-6. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
  3. Arizona Days and Ways, September 11, 1966
  4. Cram, George Franklin (1890). Cram's Universal Atlas: Geographical, Astronomical and Historical, Containing a Complete Series of Maps of Modern Geography, Illustrated by Numerous Views and Charts; the Whole Supplemented with Valuable Statistics, Diagrams, and a Complete Gazetteer of the United States. G.F. Cram. p. 368.

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Municipalities and communities of Yavapai County, Arizona, United States
County seat: Prescott
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