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.
Population over time
2 figuresRidgely 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 104 | |
| 2020 | 95 | -9 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 36 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1894 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 14 printings
- 1914 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Camden Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Camden Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional 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 ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 March 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 22 February 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 February 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blankenship Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Boydston Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Harvant Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hillix Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Flood | Ridgely | - | Highway E was closed in both directions. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Ridgely | - | From approximately 2990 to 2285 KK highway, northwest of Smithville, MO, the road was impassable due to high water. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ridgely | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. |
| August 2007 | Flood | Ridgely | - | The Platte River at Sharps Station crested at 26.43 feet, or 0.43 feet above flood stage. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Ridgely | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Ridgely | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Ridgely | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Ridgely | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edgerton Junction | 2.5 miles | 36 | |
| Edgerton | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Camden Point | 5.5 miles | 36 | |
| Kerrville | 6.1 miles | 36 | |
| Hoover | 6.2 miles | 37 | |
| Stubbs | 6.3 miles | 44 | |
| Dearborn | 8.3 miles | 18 | |
| New Market | 9.1 miles | 18 |
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 Ridgely | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2161634 | The 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.










