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Tip Top is a
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.
Tip Top on Ghosttowns.com
{{authority control Ghost towns in Arizona Former populated places in Yavapai County, Arizona Mining communities in Arizona 1876 establishments in Arizona Territory
ghost town
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in Yavapai County
Yavapai County ( ) is a county near the center of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 236,209, making it the fourth-most populous county in Arizona. The county seat is Prescott.
Yavapai County comprises the Pr ...
in the U.S. state
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of Arizona
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. The town was settled in 1876 in what was then the Arizona Territory
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.
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.
References
External links
* *Tip Top on Ghosttowns.com
{{authority control Ghost towns in Arizona Former populated places in Yavapai County, Arizona Mining communities in Arizona 1876 establishments in Arizona Territory