Hillsdale is an

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and

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in southeastern

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, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 47. It lies along local roads east of the city of

Cheyenne The Cheyenne ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains. Their Cheyenne language belongs to the Algonquian language family. Today, the Cheyenne people are split into two federally recognized nations: the Southern Cheyenne, who are enroll ...

, the

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of Laramie County. Its elevation is above sea level. Although Hillsdale is unincorporated, it has a

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, with the ZIP code of 82060. Public education in the community of Hillsdale is provided by Laramie County School District #2. Hillsdale was named for Lathrop Hills, a Surveyor for the Union Pacific Railroad who was killed nearby along Lodgepole Creek on June 11, 1867, while leading a party surveying a route of the Transcontinental Railroad. Hillsdale was

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ted as a

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in April 2013.https://maps.laramiecounty.com/Plats/HLS%2001.pdf

Notable person

Kenny Sailors Kenneth Lloyd Sailors (January 14, 1921 – January 30, 2016) was an American professional basketball player active in the 1940s and early 1950s. A guard, he is notable for inventing the jump shot as an alternative to the two-handed, flat-footed ...

, American college and professional basketball player active in the 1940s and early 1950s notable for popularizing the jump shot as an alternative to the two-handed, flat-footed set shot.

References

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