Tip Top, Arizona

Ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona

Ghost town in Arizona, United States

Tip Top, Arizona

Ghost town

Northern end of Tip Top, circa 1888

Tip Top, Arizona

Location in the state of Arizona

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Tip Top, Arizona

Tip Top, Arizona (the United States)

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Coordinates: 34°03′03″N 112°14′49″W﻿ / ﻿34.05083°N 112.24694°W﻿ / 34.05083; -112.24694
Country| United States
State| Arizona
County| Yavapai
Founded| 1876
Abandoned| 1895
Elevation

[1]

| 2,510 ft (770 m)
Population

(2009)

• Total

| 0
Time zone| UTC-7 (MST (no DST))
GNIS feature ID| 1669455[2]

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

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Old corral at Tip Top, Arizona

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.[3][4]

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.[5]

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.

## References

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1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tip Top (historical)
2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tip Top, Arizona
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ Arizona Days and Ways, September 11, 1966
5. ^ 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.

## External links

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* Media related to Tip Top, Arizona at Wikimedia Commons
* Ghost towns travel guide from Wikivoyage
* Tip Top on Ghosttowns.com
* Tip Top on Arizona Pioneer & Cemetery Research Project
* Tip Tip on the Ghost Town of the Month

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Municipalities and communities of Yavapai County, Arizona, United States

County seat: Prescott

Cities|

* Cottonwood
* Peoria‡
* Prescott
* Sedona‡

Towns|

* Camp Verde
* Chino Valley
* Clarkdale
* Dewey-Humboldt
* Jerome
* Prescott Valley
* Wickenburg‡

CDPs|

* Ash Fork
* Bagdad
* Black Canyon City
* Congress
* Cordes Lakes
* Cornville
* Lake Montezuma
* Mayer
* Paulden
* Peeples Valley
* Seligman
* Spring Valley
* Verde Village
* Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)
* Wilhoit
* Williamson
* Yarnell

Populated
places|

* Arcosanti
* Aultman
* Breezy Pines
* Briggs
* Copperopolis
* Crookton
* Crown King
* Drake
* Dugas
* Forbing Park
* Goodwin
* Groom Creek
* Hecla
* Highland Park
* Hillside
* Hooper
* Humbug
* Iron Springs
* Kirkland
* Kirkland Junction
* Lapham
* Minnehaha
* Mint
* Nelson
* Oak Creek
* Perkinsville
* Potato Patch
* Red Rock
* Skull Valley
* Walnut Grove
* Yava

Indian reservations|

* Hualapai Indian Reservation
* Yavapai Reservation
* Yavapai-Apache Nation Indian Reservation

Ghost towns|

* Alexandra
* Big Bug
* Bradshaw City
* Bumble Bee
* Catoctin
* Cherry
* Cleator
* Columbia
* Constellation
* Cordes
* Curtis
* Fort Misery
* Gillett
* Glen Oaks
* Jerome Junction
* Octave
* Stanton
* Tip Top
* Venezia
* Wagoner
* Walker
* Weaver

Footnotes|

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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