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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Ridgecrest came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Ridgecrest in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ridgecrest. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Ridgecrest data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Shell Oil Road Map for California (1956)

Published by Shell Oil Company

In addition:

Ridgecrest is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

We found Ridgecrest in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Ridgecrest for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Ridgecrest. See our Misc Page for Ridgecrest for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/