Do you know of High Ridge ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about High 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 High Ridge.
Our sources for High Ridge (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of High Ridge other than they indicate that High Ridge would be found somewhere in Cook County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1894.
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 High Ridge ...
We found seven communities that share the name High Ridge.
Within Illinois, the name High Ridge is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Bullock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of High Ridge [Bullock County].
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of High Ridge [Fairfield County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of High Ridge [Hillsborough County].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of High Ridge [Carroll County].
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of High Ridge [Howard County].
- Missouri
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of High Ridge [Jefferson County].
- Pennsylvania
- Dauphin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of High Ridge [Dauphin County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for High Ridge ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about High Ridge:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for High Ridge - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
More Orphans in Cook County ...
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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 Cook County.