Do you know of Ridgeway ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ridgeway. 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 Ridgeway.
We found mention of Ridgeway as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Elk County, Pennsylvania.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1826.
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 Ridgeway ...
We found 37 communities that share the name Ridgeway.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Ridgeway is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 37 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 37 communities, 36 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Ridgeway.
- Arkansas
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ridgeway [Boone County].
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Ridgeway [Fairfield County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Allen 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 Indiana community of Ridgeway [Allen County].
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ridgeway [Howard County].
- Iowa
- Winneshiek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Ridgeway [Winneshiek County].
- Kansas
- Ford 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 Kansas community of Ridgeway [Ford County].
- Osage County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ridgeway [Osage County].
- Shawnee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ridgeway [Shawnee County].
- Kentucky
- Harlan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ridgeway [Harlan County].
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Winona County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ridgeway [Winona County].
- Missouri
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ridgeway [Harrison County].
- Jackson 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 Missouri community of Ridgeway [Jackson County].
- Montana
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Ridgeway [Carter County].
- New Jersey
- Ocean County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Ridgeway [Ocean County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ridgeway [Warren County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ridgeway.
- South Carolina
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ridgeway [Fairfield County].
- Tennessee
- McMinn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ridgeway [McMinn County].
- Texas
- Hopkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ridgeway [Hopkins County].
- Virginia
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ridgeway [Halifax County].
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ridgeway [Henry County].
- Pittsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ridgeway [Pittsylvania County].
- West Virginia
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ridgeway [Berkeley County].
- Wisconsin
- Iowa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Ridgeway [Iowa County].
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ridgeway ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ridgeway:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Ridgeway was listed as Ridgeway Courthouse.
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Ridgeway was listed as Ridgeway Courthouse.
More Orphans in Elk 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 Elk County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Ridgeway 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |