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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.<1> 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.<2>  While we don't have its location, we believe that The Ridge would be found somewhere in Monroe County, Alabama. Communities Also Named The Ridge ...We found 41 communities that share the name The Ridge. There are two communities within Alabama that are also named The Ridge. Beyond Alabama, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout  in the United States and Canada.  Of these 39 communities, 39 are located in the United States and two are in Canada. Communities Located In Alabama ...
Fayette County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  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].
 Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Craighead CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of The Ridge [Craighead County].California
Mendocino CountyPlease visit our profile page for the California community of The Ridge [Mendocino County].Georgia
Richmond CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of The Ridge [Richmond County].Kansas
Linn CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of The Ridge [Linn County].Woodson CountyWe 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 CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of The Ridge [Elliott County].Louisiana
Bienville ParishPlease visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of The Ridge [Bienville Parish].Lafayette ParishPlease visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of The Ridge [Lafayette Parish].Maine
Cumberland CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maine community of The Ridge [Cumberland County].Washington CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Maine community of The Ridge [Washington County].Maryland
Saint Mary's CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Maryland community of The Ridge [Saint Mary's County].Michigan
Alger CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of The Ridge [Alger County].Minnesota
Koochiching CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of The Ridge [Koochiching County].Polk CountyWe 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 CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of The Ridge [Saint Louis County].Mississippi
Chickasaw CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of The Ridge [Chickasaw County].Missouri
Carroll CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Missouri community of The Ridge [Carroll County].Montana
Carter CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Montana community of The Ridge [Carter County].Nebraska
Thurston CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  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 CountyPlease visit our profile page for the New York community of The Ridge [Livingston County].Suffolk CountyPlease visit our profile page for the New York community of The Ridge [Suffolk County].North Carolina
Gaston CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of The Ridge [Gaston County].Ohio
Hancock CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of The Ridge [Hancock County].Noble CountyWe 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 CountyPlease 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 CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of The Ridge [Umatilla County].Pennsylvania
Bucks CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of The Ridge [Bucks County].Clearfield CountyWe 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 CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of The Ridge [Spink County].Tennessee
Claiborne CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of The Ridge [Claiborne County].Texas
Mills CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Texas community of The Ridge [Mills County].Robertson CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Texas community of The Ridge [Robertson County].Virginia
Henrico CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of The Ridge [Henrico County].Mecklenburg CountyPlease visit our profile page for the Virginia community of The Ridge [Mecklenburg County].West Virginia
Morgan CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of The Ridge [Morgan County].Wisconsin
Sauk CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of The Ridge [Sauk County].Wyoming
Carbon CountyWe found mention of this community, but have little information.<3>  For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of The Ridge [Carbon County].
 More Orphans in  Monroe 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 Monroe County. 
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |  | <2> | 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. |  | <3> | 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 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.
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