Tip Top, Arizona

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.

Tip Top, Arizona
Ghost town
Northern end of Tip Top, circa 1888
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Coordinates: 34°03′03″N 112°14′49″W
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]

History

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.