Do you know of Ritchie ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ritchie. 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 Ritchie.

Our sources for Ritchie (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 Ritchie other than they indicate that Ritchie would be found somewhere in Stanly County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1905.

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 Ritchie ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Ritchie.

Within North Carolina, the name Ritchie is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, nine are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ritchie [Union County].
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Ritchie.
  • Illinois
    • Will County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ritchie [Will County].
  • Indiana
    • Spencer County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ritchie [Spencer County].
  • Kentucky
    • Knott County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ritchie [Knott County].
  • Louisiana
    • Acadia Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ritchie [Acadia Parish].
  • Maryland
    • Prince George's County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ritchie [Prince George's County].
  • New Brunswick
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Ritchie.
  • Pennsylvania
    • Clinton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ritchie [Clinton County].
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Ritchie.
  • Tennessee
    • Claiborne County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ritchie [Claiborne County].
  • Texas
    • McLennan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ritchie [McLennan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ritchie ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ritchie - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Stanly County ...

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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 Stanly County.