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North Hampton, St. Louis

neighbourhood of St. Louis

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ7055531 ↗
Source-derived summary

North Hampton is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Located in St. Louis, North Hampton is bounded by Scanlan and Connecticut to the north, South Kingshighway Boulevard to the east, Chippewa Street to the south, and Hampton Avenue to the west.

Two smaller neighborhoods make up North Hampton. The Tilles Park neighborhood occupies the area from Hampton Avenue to Macklind Avenue, and the Kingshighway Hills neighborhood occupies the area from Macklind Avenue to South Kingshighway Boulevard.

Tilles Park

The 29-acre (120,000 m2) Tilles Park was created by city ordinance 48569 in 1956. It was named after Andrew Tilles, a wealthy business man of the early 20th century. There is also a Tilles Park in St. Louis County.

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The public source identifies “North Hampton, St. Louis” as neighbourhood of St. Louis. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around North, Hampton and Louis.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with North, Hampton and Louis providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “North Hampton, St. Louis”, the useful work is to connect “neighbourhood of St. Louis” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7055531. Authority coordinates are 38.599, -90.281. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “North Hampton, St. Louis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.