Do you know of Ridgecrest ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ridgecrest. 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 Ridgecrest.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Ridgecrest, so we are uncertain whether Ridgecrest 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 Ridgecrest would be found somewhere in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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 Ridgecrest ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Ridgecrest.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Ridgecrest.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Pittsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ridgecrest [Pittsylvania County].
- Pittsylvania County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ridgecrest [Jefferson County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ridgecrest [Montgomery County].
- Arkansas
- Lonoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ridgecrest [Lonoke County].
- California
- Kern County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ridgecrest [Kern County].
- Florida
- Pinellas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ridgecrest [Pinellas County].
- Georgia
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ridgecrest [Henry County].
- Illinois
- Grundy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ridgecrest [Grundy County].
- Louisiana
- Concordia Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ridgecrest [Concordia Parish].
- Ouachita Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ridgecrest [Ouachita Parish].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ridgecrest [Montgomery County].
- North Carolina
- Buncombe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ridgecrest [Buncombe County].
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ridgecrest [Aiken County].
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ridgecrest [Florence County].
- Tennessee
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ridgecrest [Putnam County].
- Texas
- Brazos 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 Ridgecrest [Brazos County].
- Harris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ridgecrest [Harris County].
- Jefferson 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 Texas community of Ridgecrest [Jefferson County].
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ridgecrest [Orange County].
- Randall 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 Texas community of Ridgecrest [Randall County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Ridgecrest [Salt Lake County].
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ridgecrest [King County].
- Alabama
More Orphans in Fairfax 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 Fairfax County.
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Ridgecrest 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. |