Hill Top, Fleming County, Kentucky Explained

Official Name:	Hill Top, Kentucky
Settlement Type:	Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:	Kentucky
Pushpin Label:	Hill Top
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	United States
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Name1:	Kentucky
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Fleming
Timezone:	Eastern (EST)
Utc Offset:	-5
Timezone Dst:	EDT
Utc Offset Dst:	-4
Elevation Ft:	899
Coordinates:	38.3603°N -83.8392°W
Area Code:	606
Blank Name:	GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:	494256

Hill Top is an unincorporated community in Fleming County, Kentucky, United States. Hill Top is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 170 and Kentucky Route 1347, 7.1miles southwest of Flemingsburg.^[1]

Notable residents

• Franklin Sousley, one of the men shown in the famous Joe Rosenthal Associated Press photograph of US Marines and Sailors raising the second US flag on Iwo Jima, was born in Hill Top on 19 September 1925. He was killed in action on Iwo Jima after having been shot by a Japanese sniper on 21 March 1945, about a month after the famous photograph was captured. He was only 19 years of age. His body was first interred on Iwo Jima, but was later returned home for his final interment on May 8, 1947, in Elizaville Cemetery.

Notes and References

1. . State Primary Road System: Fleming County . PDF . 2011 . June 28, 2012 .