Welcome to Ringgold ...

Ringgold is located in Platte County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Ringgold, you might consider that their post office opened in 1850.

Time Zone: Ringgold lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Ringgold: 816 & 975<2>

Communities Also Named Ringgold ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 16 communities that are also named Ringgold - they are located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska (2), Ohio (2), Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Ringgold.

Adding Ringgold to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Ringgold in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Ringgold was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Ringgold post office opened in 1850.

We also found Ringgold in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Ringgold.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Platte, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 816 code has been Overlayed with the 975 area code. New phone numbers in the Ringgold area will be assigned with one of these codes: 816 or 975. As a result, placing a call in the Ringgold area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/