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Ridge, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Ridge, in Ridgeville, Georgia, is an unincorporated community located along Georgia SR 99, approximately three miles northeast of Darien, Georgia, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article The Ridge (Ridgeville, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for McIntosh County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Old Shell Rd. GA 99, Ridgeville, 31305
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. district
Census division. Darien
National Register reference number. 85000863 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

320 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Ridge, The between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10,275 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 143 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	143
Debris and open burning	112
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	9
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1999	Natural	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MCINTOSH-008
26 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this property

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeville, the town this property stands in, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ridgeville	$9,000	Thunderstorm winds likely from a Micro Burst, broke off large Oak tree limbs and toppled trees in an area 100 feet by 100 feet.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ridgeville	$5,000	The McIntosh County 911 call center reported several trees down near Cypress street in Darien.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ridgeville	$1,000	McIntosh County Dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 99, near Blue Hall Road.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ridgeville	-	The McIntosh County Warning Point reported a tree down on Blounts Crossing between Cypress Street and Palmetto Street.
May 2015	Hail	Ridgeville	-	McIntosh Emergency Management reported nickel sized hail and 1.5 inches of rain in about 30 minutes near Darien.
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ridgeville	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.

Every storm recorded in McIntosh County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ashantilly	1.7 miles	2015
Fort King George	2.7 miles	1971
West Darien Historic District	2.9 miles	2001
Vernon Square-Columbus Square Historic District	2.9 miles	1985
Behavior Cemetery	7.4 miles	1996
Sapelo Island Lighthouse	7.6 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000863 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McIntosh County	All 10 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.