[1] The Omaha Belt Line ran near the northwest corner of the neighborhood.
[2] After being platted in the Scriptown affair of the 1850s, the neighborhood was immediately put to use by Byron Reed for a cemetery.
[3] In 1981 a study was conducted revealing that between 1983 and 1971 more than 800 African Americans were buried at Prospect Hill including at least 10 buffalo soldiers.
[4] The U.S. government used land in the Prospect Hill neighborhood to construct almost 700 units of public housing in the 1940s.
Today, Omaha's Salem Baptist Church is in the location where Hilltop used to stand.