Do you know of Ridgewood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ridgewood. 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 Ridgewood.<1>
We found mention of Ridgewood as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1844 and closed in 1854.
Communities Also Named Ridgewood ...
We found 42 communities that share the name Ridgewood.
There are three communities within South Carolina that are also named Ridgewood.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 41 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Charleston County
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ridgewood [Oconee County].
- Richland County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ridgewood [Jefferson County].
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ridgewood [Madison County].
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ridgewood [Pike County].
- California
- Placer County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ridgewood [Placer County].
- Colorado
- Boulder County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Ridgewood [Boulder County].
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Ridgewood [New Castle County].
- Florida
- Alachua County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ridgewood [Alachua County].
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ridgewood [Clay County].
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ridgewood [Polk County].
- Putnam 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 Florida community of Ridgewood [Putnam County].
- Georgia
- Chatham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ridgewood [Chatham County].
- Clayton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ridgewood [Clayton County].
- Gwinnett County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ridgewood [Gwinnett County].
- Richmond County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ridgewood [Richmond County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ridgewood [Morgan County].
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Saint Mary's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ridgewood [Saint Mary's County].
- New Jersey
- Bergen County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Ridgewood [Bergen County].
- New York
- Niagara County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ridgewood [Niagara County].
- Oneida County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ridgewood [Oneida County].
- Queens County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ridgewood [Queens County].
- North Carolina
- Rowan County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ridgewood [Rowan County].
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ridgewood [Union County].
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ridgewood [Wake County].
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ridgewood [Wayne County].
- Ohio
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ridgewood [Clark County].
- Muskingum County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ridgewood [Muskingum County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ridgewood.
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Bradley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ridgewood [Bradley County].
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ridgewood [Campbell County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ridgewood [Jefferson County].
- West Virginia
- Cabell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ridgewood [Cabell County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ridgewood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ridgewood:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Fairfield 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 Fairfield County.
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> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Ridgewood 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |