Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1907 on and old-book passages.
The Pleasant Ridge post office opened in 1859, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant Ridge’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pleasant Ridge. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Pleasant Ridge.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pleasant Ridge yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Pleasant Ridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Daviess and Ohio counties, Kentucky, United States. The population was 578 as of the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1859.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Pleasant Ridge, cut from the printed page as they were published.
to school, and four years later commenced to teach a country school in Hancock County. In the latter part of 1876 he commenced business life, and, with W. Ford, opened a dry-goods and general store at Pleasant Ridge. While teaching school Mr. Hite spent leisure time in the study of pharmacy with Dr. J. W. Ellis, of Masonville, and at the end of a year in the dry-goods business he opened a drug store in Pleasant Ridge. In September, ‘1878, he bought the drug store of Mullen & Haynes, of Whitesville,
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Pleasant Ridge itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Pleasant Ridge had its own post office from 1859 to 1913.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Pleasant Ridge post office opened in 1859, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
