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Do you know of Ridgeville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ridgeville. 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 Ridgeville.<1>

Our sources for Ridgeville (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 Ridgeville other than they indicate that Ridgeville would be found somewhere in Tippah County, Mississippi.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1907.

Communities Also Named Ridgeville ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Ridgeville.

Within Mississippi, the name Ridgeville is unique.

Beyond Mississippi, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ridgeville [Butler County].
      • Etowah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ridgeville [Etowah County].
    • California
      • Trinity County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ridgeville [Trinity County].
    • Georgia
      • McIntosh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ridgeville [McIntosh County].
    • Illinois
      • Iroquois County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ridgeville [Iroquois County].
    • Indiana
      • Randolph County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ridgeville [Randolph County].
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Ridgeville.
    • Maryland
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ridgeville [Carroll County].
    • Michigan
      • Lenawee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ridgeville [Lenawee County].
    • North Carolina
      • Caswell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ridgeville [Caswell County].
    • Ohio
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ridgeville [Warren County].
      • Wyandot County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ridgeville [Wyandot County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ridgeville.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Montour County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ridgeville [Montour County].
    • South Carolina
      • Dorchester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ridgeville [Dorchester County].
    • Tennessee
      • Moore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ridgeville [Moore County].
    • West Virginia
      • Mineral County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ridgeville [Mineral County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ridgeville ...

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

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 Ridgeville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Tippah 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 Tippah County.

AnvilMurry
  
BullockNew Barden
  
CampbellOcala
CamphillOrizaba
Chism 
Comers BluffPeoples
 Pleasant Ridge
Finger 
 Ruckersville
Gossett 
GuytonSelden
 Shelby Creek
HatchieSpring Hill
Heathville 
HopkinsUnion Mills
  
JonesboroughYanco
  
LeconteZorball
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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