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History · Pine Ridge

Pine Ridge’s post office opened in 1869

More historic than 11% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Most of Pine Ridge was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994. Below: maps from 1944 on and the census since 1960.

1869first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Pine Ridge began

When was Pine Ridge founded?

1869

The Pine Ridge post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 329 in 19602020 census: 2,167157 years

How historic is Pine Ridge?

D

More historic than 11% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Pine Ridge post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Pine Ridge’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Pine Ridge is more historic than 11% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

D
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Pine Ridge’s overall grade.
Founding era1869, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.0% of homes (±1.2) · typical SC town 3.5% · U.S. 8.4%D−National RegisterNo listings counted · typical SC town 3.2 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 11%
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South Carolina towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical South Carolina town has 3.2 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Pine Ridge’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of South Carolina towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to C−. The pre-1940 share (±1.2 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Pine Ridge’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Pine Ridge are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages5 hamlets and corners are still on the map.
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Start Pine Ridge’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pine Ridge’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Pine Ridge had its own post office from 1869 to 1908.

Pine Ridge
1869–1908
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Apollo GardensArborgateGrandview EstatesPineridgeWestcliff Estates
Gone or out of use
Camp MoorelocaleCongaree Churchchurch

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Pine Ridge, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pine Ridge yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Pine Ridge is a town in Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Pine Ridge had a population of 2,167. It is part of the Columbia Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1869. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,064 to 2,167 (+5%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Pine Ridge, 1869 to 1944

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1869Post officeThe Pine Ridge post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1908Post officeThe Pine Ridge post office closes
  5. 1944On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Pine Ridge on the map, 1944 to 1982

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pine Ridge. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Pine Ridge on the 1944 USGS mapPine Ridge on the 1972 USGS mapPine Ridge on the 1982 USGS map1944Edmund sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Pine Ridge.

People over time

Pine Ridge, census by census

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Grew from 329 people in 1960 to 2,167 in 2020, 6 times over.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Pine Ridge’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Pine Ridge

Nobody well known was born in Pine Ridge itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Stanley DonenAmerican film director and choreographer · b. 1924
C
Charles Bolden23rd Administrator of NASA and astronaut · b. 1946
A
Aziz AnsariAmerican actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter… · b. 1983
Angie StoneAmerican singer and actress · b. 1961
Teyonah ParrisAmerican actress · b. 1987
Jermaine O'NealAmerican basketball player · b. 1978
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

South CongareeIts storyDCayce3 historic placesC−

Questions about Pine Ridge’s history

What year was Pine Ridge founded?

The Pine Ridge post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Pine Ridge rank for history?

Pine Ridge is more historic than 11% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Pine Ridge?

0.0% of Pine Ridge’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.2 points), against a typical 3.5% for a South Carolina town; the median home was built in 1994.

Memory lane

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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).

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.