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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Ridgefield came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Ridgefield in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ridgefield. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Ridgefield data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)

Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ridgefield:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Auto Trails Map of Washington (1925)

Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Mobile Oil Map of Washington (1949)

Published by Mobile Oil Company

In addition:

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

We found Ridgefield in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Ridgefield for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Ridgefield. See our Misc Page for Ridgefield for more information.

Railroad Mentions of Ridgefield:

Ridgefield was mentioned in the following schedules:

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)

Footnotes ...

<1>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/