Do you know of Maple Ridge ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Maple 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 Maple Ridge.
Our sources for Maple 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 Maple Ridge other than they indicate that Maple Ridge would be found somewhere in Isanti County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1904.
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 Maple Ridge ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Maple Ridge.
Within Minnesota, the name Maple Ridge is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Maple Ridge.
- Georgia
- Gwinnett County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Maple Ridge [Gwinnett County].
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Maple Ridge [Cook County].
- Indiana
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Maple Ridge [Marion County].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Maple Ridge [Anne Arundel County].
- Massachusetts
- Norfolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Maple Ridge [Norfolk County].
- Michigan
- Arenac County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Maple Ridge [Arenac County].
- Delta 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 Michigan community of Maple Ridge [Delta County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Maple Ridge.
- Ohio
- Mahoning County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Maple Ridge [Mahoning County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Maple Ridge.
- Pennsylvania
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Maple Ridge [Somerset County].
- Quebec
- 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 Quebec community of Maple Ridge.
- South Carolina
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Maple Ridge [Berkeley County].
- Wisconsin
- Douglas 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 Wisconsin community of Maple Ridge [Douglas County].
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maple Ridge ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Maple 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 Maple 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 Isanti 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 Isanti County.
| Athens | |
| Spectacle Lake | |
| Stanford |
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 Maple 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/ |