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Ridgely, Missouri

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Preston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64444. It stands on Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Camden Point quadrangle. 95 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Ridgely within Platte County

Population over time

2 figures

Ridgely fell from 104 to 95 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010104
202095-9 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 36 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ridgely in 2006, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 March 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 February 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 February 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ridgely: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blankenship QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Boydston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Harvant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hillix QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgely in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 3 hail, 3 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019FloodRidgely-Highway E was closed in both directions.
July 2015Flash FloodRidgely-From approximately 2990 to 2285 KK highway, northwest of Smithville, MO, the road was impassable due to high water.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRidgely-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
August 2007FloodRidgely-The Platte River at Sharps Station crested at 26.43 feet, or 0.43 feet above flood stage.
May 2007FloodRidgely-The Platte River near Sharps Station crested at 35.68 feet, or 9.68 feet above flood stage. This was its third highest crest and was on May 11, 2007.
May 2020HailRidgely-no account filed
August 2011HailRidgely-no account filed
March 1997HailRidgely-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Edgerton Junction2.5 miles36
Edgerton3.4 miles18
Camden Point5.5 miles36
Kerrville6.1 miles36
Hoover6.2 miles37
Stubbs6.3 miles44
Dearborn8.3 miles18
New Market9.1 miles18

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on RidgelyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2161634The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725295. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.