Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Valley Ridge came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Valley Ridge 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 Valley Ridge. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Valley Ridge:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher)

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