Do you know of West Ridge ???

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

We found mention of West Ridge as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Chatham County, North Carolina.

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.

Communities Also Named West Ridge ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name West Ridge.

There are three communities within North Carolina that are also named West Ridge.

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

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of West Ridge [Henderson County].
- Nash County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of West Ridge [Nash County].
- Randolph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of West Ridge [Randolph County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of West Ridge [Tuscaloosa County].
- Arizona
  - Maricopa County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of West Ridge [Maricopa County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of West Ridge.
- California
  - San Mateo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of West Ridge [San Mateo County].
- Georgia
  - Cobb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of West Ridge [Cobb County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of West Ridge [Cook County].
- Ohio
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Ridge [Clark County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Berks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Ridge [Berks County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of West Ridge [Salt Lake County].
  - Weber County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of West Ridge [Weber County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Ridge ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Chatham 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 Chatham County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that West Ridge could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.