Hills Camp

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: Hills Camp
Feature Type: Populated Place (historical)
State: Nevada
County: Clark County
USGS Map: Willow Beach
Coordinates: 35.7766526, -114.7010878
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GNIS Feature ID: 863845

Names and historical notes

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

GNIS description

camp on Colorado River, 21 mi below Hoover Dam, now under Lake Mohave, approx loc

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 863845. 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.