Hilda is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

within the Mark Twain National Forest District in Taney County,

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, United States. It is located on

U.S. Route 160 U.S. Route 160 (US 160) is a east–west United States Numbered Highway in the Midwestern and Western United States. The western terminus of the route is at US 89 west of Tuba City, Arizona. The eastern terminus is at US 67 and Missour ...

three miles east of the Kissee Mills recreation area on the Beaver Creek arm of

Bull Shoals Lake Bull Shoals Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Ozark Mountains of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, United States. It has hundreds of miles of lake arms and coves, and common activities include boating, water sports, swimming, ...

and approximately twenty miles east of Branson. The federally-designated, 13,000 acre Hercules Glades Wilderness Area lies one mile east of Hilda. The site of the former Hilda Lookout Tower is approximately one mile south on

Lime Kiln Mountain Lime Kiln Mountain is a long ridge in Taney County in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. The ridge reaches an elevation of at . U.S. Route 160 traverses the ridgeline from Rueter in the southeast to Hilda in the northwest for a distance of approx ...

.''Hilda, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1967 (1979 rev.) Hilda is part of the Branson Micropolitan Statistical Area. A post office called Hilda was established in 1896, and remained in operation until 1975. An early postmaster gave the community the first name of his wife, Hilda Mosely. Hilda in 2018

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