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Do you know of Ripley ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ripley. 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 Ripley.

Our sources for Ripley (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 Ripley other than they indicate that Ripley would be found somewhere in Noble County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1875 and closed  in 1903.

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 Ripley ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Ripley.

There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Ripley.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Indiana ...
    • Pulaski County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ripley [Pulaski County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Limestone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ripley [Limestone County].
    • Arkansas
      • Cleveland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ripley [Cleveland County].
    • California
      • Riverside County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ripley [Riverside County].
    • Georgia
      • Twiggs County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ripley [Twiggs County].
    • Illinois
      • Brown County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ripley [Brown County].
    • Maine
      • Somerset County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Ripley [Somerset County].
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Ripley [Washington County].
    • Maryland
      • Charles County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ripley [Charles County].
    • Michigan
      • Houghton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ripley [Houghton County].
    • Mississippi
      • Tippah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ripley [Tippah County].
    • Missouri
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ripley [Jackson County].
    • Montana
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Ripley [Lincoln County].
    • Nevada
      • Clark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Ripley [Clark County].
    • New York
      • Chautauqua County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ripley [Chautauqua County].
    • Ohio
      • Brown County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ripley [Brown County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Payne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Ripley [Payne County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ripley.
    • Tennessee
      • Lauderdale County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ripley [Lauderdale County].
    • Texas
      • Titus 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 Texas community of Ripley [Titus County].
    • West Virginia
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ripley [Jackson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ripley ...

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

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 Ripley - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Noble 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 Noble County.

Albany 
AlcindaRound Lake
  
Bear LakeSkinner Lake
Big LakeSteinbarger Lake
 Strouse
Cree Lake 
 Upper Long Lake
Diamond Lake 
 Viola
High Lake 
 Wakefield Village
KeslerWaldron Lake
Knapp LakeWolf Lane
  
La OttoYork
Loon Lake 

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Ripley 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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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