Do you know of Ridgefield ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Ridgefield, so we are uncertain whether Ridgefield 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 Ridgefield would be found somewhere in Guilford County, North Carolina.

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 Ridgefield ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Ridgefield.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Ridgefield.

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

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ridgefield [Orange County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ridgefield [Montgomery County].
- Connecticut
  - Fairfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Ridgefield [Fairfield County].
- Georgia
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ridgefield [Fayette County].
- Illinois
  - McHenry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ridgefield [McHenry County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ridgefield [Anne Arundel County].
- New Jersey
  - Bergen 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 New Jersey community of Ridgefield [Bergen County].
- North Dakota
  - Cavalier 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 Dakota community of Ridgefield [Cavalier County].
- Ohio
  - Muskingum County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ridgefield [Muskingum County].
- Pennsylvania
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ridgefield [York County].
- Tennessee
  - Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ridgefield [Rutherford County].
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ridgefield [Sullivan County].
- Virginia
  - Radford City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ridgefield [Radford City].
- Washington
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ridgefield [Clark County].

More Orphans in Guilford 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 Guilford 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 Ridgefield 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.