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Welcome to Yankee Ridge ...

Yankee Ridge is located in Harrison County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Yankee Ridge, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1872.

A typical abbreviation for Yankee Ridge: Yankee Rdg. (or less commonly used: Yankee Rdge. or Yankee Ridg.)

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

Area Code for Yankee Ridge: 660

Communities Also Named Yankee Ridge ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Yankee Ridge - it's located in Ohio.

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

Adding Yankee Ridge to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Yankee Ridge 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 Yankee Ridge was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Yankee Ridge post office opened in 1872.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Yankee Ridge.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Harrison, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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