Hillsborough or Hillsboro is the name of a number of cities and counties throughout the world. Some take their names directly or indirectly from Hillsborough, South Yorkshire, in England (see below), and others from Hillsborough, County Down in Northern Ireland.

It is also associated with the Hillsborough disaster of April 15, 1989 in which 96 Liverpool FC fans died in a crush at the Hillsborough ground of Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

Hillsborough

In Australia

• Hillsborough, New South Wales, a suburb of Lake Macquarie

In Canada

• Hillsborough, New Brunswick
• Hillsborough (electoral district), a defunct Prince Edward Island federal electoral district

In New Zealand

Two suburbs are named it:

• Hillsborough, Auckland
• Hillsborough, Canterbury, a suburb of Christchurch

In the United Kingdom

• Hillsborough, Cornwall
• Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland
• Hillsborough, Devon, England
• Hillsborough, South Yorkshire, England
  • Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield — home of Sheffield Wednesday and site of the
    • Hillsborough disaster

In the United States

• Hillsborough, California
• Hillsborough, Maryland
• Hillsborough, New Hampshire
• Hillsborough, North Carolina
• Hillsborough County, Florida
• Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
• Hillsborough Township, New Jersey

In the West Indies

• Hillsborough, Grenada

Hillsboro

• Hillsboro, Alabama, in Lawrence County
• Hillsboro, Madison County, Alabama, a minor settlement
• Hillsboro, Arkansas
• Hillsboro, Colorado
• Hillsboro, Georgia
• Hillsboro, Illinois
• Hillsboro, Indiana, in Fountain County
• Hillsboro, Henry County, Indiana, a small village
• Hillsboro, Iowa
• Hillsboro, Kansas
• Hillsboro, Kentucky
• Hillsboro, Maryland
• Hillsboro, Mississippi
• Hillsboro, Missouri
• Hillsboro, Montana
• Hillsboro, New Mexico
• Hillsboro, New York
• Hillsboro, North Dakota
• Hillsboro, Ohio
• Hillsboro, Oregon
• Hillsboro, Pennsylvania
• 'Hillsboro, Tennessee', the location of the trial for Bertram 'Bert' Cates in the play Inherit the Wind. (The town in the play is really parallel to Dayton, Tennessee).
• Hillsboro, Texas
• Hillsboro, Virginia
• Hillsboro, West Virginia
• Hillsboro, Wisconsin

NB: Maryland has both a Hillsborough (in Prince George's County) and a Hillsboro (in Caroline County).

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