There are municipal boundaries with Santa Ana in the northeast, Opodepe in the south, and Trincheras in the west.

The main crops are wheat, corn and grasses for cattle fodder.

Proximity to the important Federal Highway 15 could stimulate this sector in the future.

In 1939 it was just a ranch called San Fernando when the federal government chose it for the junction of the Ferrocarril Sonora-Baja California and the Ferrocarril Sud-Pacífico railways, which was finished in 1948.

The name is derived from Benjamín Hill, the Sinaloan military leader whom President Venustiano Carranza appointed Governor of Sonora in 1914.