Red Top is an unincorporated community in Edwards County, Illinois, United States.

Red Top is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Albion.

The settlement name comes from Agrostis gigantea, or Redtop Wildgrass that grows in the Illinois region.

[2] The community is one quarter-mile south of Illinois Route 15.

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