Do you know of The Ridge ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of The Ridge, so we are uncertain whether The Ridge is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that The Ridge would be found somewhere in Cumberland County, Maine.

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 The Ridge ...

We found 41 communities that share the name The Ridge.

There is one other community in Maine which is also named The Ridge.

Beyond Maine, we know of another 40 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 40 communities, 39 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Maine ...
- Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of The Ridge [Washington County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Fayette 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 Alabama community of The Ridge [Fayette County].
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of The Ridge [Greene County].
  - Monroe County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of The Ridge [Monroe County].
- Arkansas
  - Craighead County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of The Ridge [Craighead County].
- California
  - Mendocino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Ridge [Mendocino County].
- Georgia
  - Richmond 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 Georgia community of The Ridge [Richmond County].
- Kansas
  - Linn 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 Kansas community of The Ridge [Linn County].
  - Woodson County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of The Ridge [Woodson County].
- Kentucky
  - Elliott County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of The Ridge [Elliott County].
- Louisiana
  - Bienville Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of The Ridge [Bienville Parish].
  - Lafayette Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of The Ridge [Lafayette Parish].
- Maryland
  - Saint Mary's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of The Ridge [Saint Mary's County].
- Michigan
  - Alger 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 Michigan community of The Ridge [Alger County].
- Minnesota
  - Koochiching 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 Minnesota community of The Ridge [Koochiching County].
  - Polk County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of The Ridge [Polk County].
  - Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of The Ridge [Saint Louis County].
- Mississippi
  - Chickasaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of The Ridge [Chickasaw County].
- Missouri
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of The Ridge [Carroll County].
- Montana
  - Carter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of The Ridge [Carter County].
- Nebraska
  - Thurston 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 Nebraska community of The Ridge [Thurston County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of The Ridge.
- New York
  - Livingston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of The Ridge [Livingston County].
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of The Ridge [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
  - Gaston 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 North Carolina community of The Ridge [Gaston County].
- Ohio
  - Hancock 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 Ohio community of The Ridge [Hancock County].
  - Noble County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of The Ridge [Noble County].
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of The Ridge [Warren County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of The Ridge.
- Oregon
  - Umatilla 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 Oregon community of The Ridge [Umatilla County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Bucks 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 Pennsylvania community of The Ridge [Bucks County].
  - Clearfield County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of The Ridge [Clearfield County].
- South Dakota
  - Spink 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 South Dakota community of The Ridge [Spink County].
- Tennessee
  - Claiborne 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 Tennessee community of The Ridge [Claiborne County].
- Texas
  - Mills County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of The Ridge [Mills County].
  - Robertson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of The Ridge [Robertson County].
- Virginia
  - Henrico 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 Virginia community of The Ridge [Henrico County].
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of The Ridge [Mecklenburg County].
- West Virginia
  - Morgan 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 West Virginia community of The Ridge [Morgan County].
- Wisconsin
  - Sauk 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 Wisconsin community of The Ridge [Sauk County].
- Wyoming
  - Carbon 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 Wyoming community of The Ridge [Carbon County].

More Orphans in Cumberland 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 Cumberland County.

Birch Island	Little Diamond Island
Black Point	Little Falls - South Windham
Blakes	Lygonia
Bowery Beach
Bridgton Compact	Mackworth Point
Broad Cove	Mallison Falls
Brunswick Center	Mattocks
Brunswick Station	Mayberry Hill
Buggy Meetinghouse
	Oceanview Harbor
Cape Cottage Woods	Olde Mill Brook
Chadbourne's
Chase's	Peabbles Cove
Clapboard Island	Pejepscot
Cooks Mills	Penny's
Cornish	Plummer Island
Crescent Beach	Pumpkin Valley
Cumberland Junction
	Redbank Village
Deering Centre
Duck Pond Corner	Sabbathday Lake
Duck Pond	Saccarappa
Dunstan	Scarborough Beach
	Scarborough Crossing
East Baldwin	Sligo
East North Yarmouth	Smiths Mills
East Windham	South Portland Heights
Evergreen	South Standish
	Stickey River
Forest City Landing
Fort Williams	Thompsons Point
Freeport Center	Town Farm Hill
	Two Lights
Gorham Center
Great Diamond Island	Union Station

Higgins	Wardtown
Highland Lake Vista	Webb Mills
Hunnewell Hill	West Gloucester
	Westbrook Junction
Ingall's Hill	Wildwood Park
	Willard
Kings Grant
	Yarmouth Center
The Ledges	Yarmouthville

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 The 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.