Do you know of Cedar Ridge ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cedar Ridge. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Cedar Ridge.

Our sources for Cedar Ridge (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cedar Ridge other than they indicate that Cedar Ridge would be found somewhere in Marshall County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1894.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Cedar Ridge ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Cedar Ridge.

Within Alabama, the name Cedar Ridge is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Coconino County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Cedar Ridge [Coconino County].
  - Maricopa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Cedar Ridge [Maricopa County].
- California
  - Nevada County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cedar Ridge [Nevada County].
  - Tuolumne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cedar Ridge [Tuolumne County].
- Georgia
  - Newton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cedar Ridge [Newton County].
  - Paulding County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cedar Ridge [Paulding County].
  - Whitfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cedar Ridge [Whitfield County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Cedar Ridge [Anne Arundel County].
- Missouri
  - Dallas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cedar Ridge [Dallas County].
- North Carolina
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cedar Ridge [Rockingham County].
- Oklahoma
  - Pawnee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Cedar Ridge [Pawnee County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cedar Ridge [Adams County].
- Utah
  - Weber County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Cedar Ridge [Weber County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cedar Ridge ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cedar Ridge:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cedar Ridge - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Marshall County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Marshall County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Cedar Ridge could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/