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Hilltop is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 744 at the 2010 census.
The city is a small enclave within the city of Columbia Heights and consists of 16 city blocks. Minnesota State Highway 65 (Central Avenue) serves as a main arterial route, running on the town’s eastern edge.
The majority of the town’s residents live in the 263 mobile homes, across four trailer parks, that sit within the city’s borders. Hilltop is one of only two incorporated cities in America that consist primarily of manufactured housing; the second is another Twin Cities suburb of Landfall, Minnesota.
The land where Hilltop exists was originally an unincorporated part of the Fridley Township, a civil township next to the town of Fridley. The land had a dairy farm and later was the Oak Grove Riding Academy and Stables. The first trailer park, Trailer City, opened on the land in the 1940s; another park, Sunnyside, soon opened next door. Residents of two trailer parks became…