| Hildreth | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | California#USA |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in California |
| Pushpin Image: | California Locator Map with US.PNG |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | California |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Madera County |
| Coordinates: | 37.1089°N -119.6331°W |
| Elevation M: | 380 |
| Elevation Ft: | 1247 |
Hildreth is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. It is located 3.5miles east-southeast of O'Neals, at an elevation of 1247 feet (380 m).
In the late 1870s, Tom Hildreth opened a store at the site, thereby beginning the town named for him. A post office operated at Hildreth from 1886 to 1896. At its peak in the 1880s, Hildreth had a hotel, three general stores, a mine, a barbershop, and other businesses catering to miners and travelers on the stage road from Millerton. The town "officially died" in 1896 when the post office closed.[1] Gold mining in the Hildreth district briefly revived in the late 1920s,[2] but the town was never repopulated. By 2010, only the schoolhouse and cemetery remained.