Do you know of Lake Ridge ???

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

Our sources for Lake 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 Lake Ridge other than they indicate that Lake Ridge would be found somewhere in Lenawee County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1851 and closed in 1898.

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 Lake Ridge ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Lake Ridge.

Within Michigan, the name Lake Ridge is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Cleburne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lake Ridge [Cleburne County].
  - Phillips County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lake Ridge [Phillips County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lake Ridge [Hillsborough County].
- Kansas
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lake Ridge [Jefferson County].
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex 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 Lake Ridge [Middlesex County].
- New York
  - Saratoga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lake Ridge [Saratoga County].
  - Tompkins County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lake Ridge [Tompkins County].
- South Carolina
  - Spartanburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lake Ridge [Spartanburg County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Lake Ridge [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
  - Prince William County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lake Ridge [Prince William County].
- West Virginia
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Lake Ridge [Harrison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lake Ridge ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lake Ridge:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lake Ridge - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Lenawee 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 Lenawee 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 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 Lake 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.

<2>

A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/