Ridgeville, Georgia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Ridge, Thelisted 1985

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Epping House, Ridgevillefederal building survey, 3 photographs

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1921 USGS Darien quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1993 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 333 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10,290 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 148 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ashintilly
• Ardick
• Carnigan
• Meridian
• Bel-Air
• Darien

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeville in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in McIntosh County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 321595. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.