 Public education in the community of Hillsdale is provided by Laramie County School District #2.Hillsdale was named for Lathrop Hills, a Surveyor for the Union Pacific Railroad who was killed nearby along Lodgepole Creek on June 11, 1867 while leading a party surveying a route of the Transcontinental Railroad.Hillsdale was platted as a townsite in April 2013.