Hillegas

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE · NEVADA

A historical populated place in Clark County, Nevada, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name: Hillegas
Feature Type: Populated Place (historical)
State: Nevada
County: Clark County
USGS Map: Las Vegas NE
Coordinates: 36.1535843, -115.0213866
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GNIS Feature ID: 846685

Names and historical notes

Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.

GNIS description

proposed townsite, 1912, for Frenchman Mine

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 846685. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.

GNIS citation text may identify a source series rather than a specific page. It is reproduced below without implying that its underlying documents were inspected.

Text Avertt, Walter R. Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names 1963-12-31 00:00:00 Avertt, Walter R. Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names. Revised edition: printed by the author, 1963, 114 pp. Gives historical background on place names in southern Nevada.

GNIS source datasets and documentation

Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.