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Do you know of Dividing Ridge ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dividing 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 Dividing Ridge. Our sources for Dividing Ridge (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 Dividing Ridge other than they indicate that Dividing Ridge would be found somewhere in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1865 and closed in 1907. 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 Dividing Ridge ...We found two communities that share the name Dividing Ridge. Within Pennsylvania, the name Dividing Ridge is unique. Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dividing Ridge ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dividing Ridge: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Dividing Ridge - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Dividing Ridge. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 42/19328 (Place Name: Dividing Ridge) County: Somerset (FIPS State/County: 42/111) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Dividing Ridge) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More Orphans in Somerset 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 Somerset County. Footnotes ...
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