13-593: Ridgewood may refer to: Geography [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Ridgewood, Queensland Ridgewood, Western Australia Canada [ edit ] Ridgewood, Ontario Ridgewood, Edmonton , Alberta United Kingdom [ edit ] Ridgewood, East Sussex United States [ edit ] Ridgewood Heights, California Ridgewood, Florida , in Putnam County Ridgewood, Clay County, Florida Ridgewood, Illinois ,
26-595: A CDP in Will County Ridgewood (Evanston, Illinois) , a building Ridgewood, New Jersey Ridgewood, Queens , New York, a neighborhood in New York City Ridgewood, Niagara County, New York Ridgewood, Ohio New Zealand [ edit ] Ridgewood, Taranaki , a suburb of New Plymouth in North Island, New Zealand Transportation [ edit ] Ridgewood (NJT station) ,
39-710: A process to formally define their boundaries and to gazette them, which is almost complete. In March 2006, only South Australia and the Northern Territory had not completed this process. The CGNA's Gazetteer of Australia recognises two types of locality: bounded and unbounded. Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address localities". In
52-559: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ridgewood, Queensland Ridgewood is a rural locality in the Shire of Noosa , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , Ridgewood had a population of 317 people. Ridgewood is in the Sunshine Coast hinterland about 32 kilometres (20 mi) west of Noosa Heads . Mary River Road Provisional School opened in 1916. Circa 1918, it
65-400: Is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to, a larger city. The Australian usage is closer to
78-808: The American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has subsequently been
91-438: The first instance, decisions about the names and boundaries of suburbs and localities are made by the local council in which they are located based on criteria such as community recognition. Local council decisions are, however, subject to approval by the state's geographical names board. The boundaries of some suburbs and localities overlap two or more local government areas (LGAs). Examples of this are Adamstown Heights , which
104-610: The north-west, and Eumundi State School in Eumundi to the east. The nearest government secondary school is Noosa District State High School which has its junior campus in Pomona to the north and its senior campus in Cooroy. Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia , used mainly for address purposes. The term locality
117-625: The previous name for Cypress Avenue/Dummy Crossing station on the LIRR Manhattan Beach / Bay Ridge Branch Other [ edit ] Ridgewood Park (baseball ground) , a former baseball ground Ridgewood Preparatory School , a college preparatory school in New Orleans, Louisiana Ridgewood School , an academy in Scawsby, Doncaster, England See also [ edit ] Ridgewood High School (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
130-454: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ridgewood . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ridgewood&oldid=1206161777 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
143-787: The train station in Ridgewood, New Jersey; listed on the NRHP Ridgewood (LIRR Lower Montauk station) , a closed station on the Lower Montauk line of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Ridgewood, the original name for Wantagh (LIRR station) Ridgewood, the replacement name given to the former DeKalb Avenue station on the LIRR Evergreen Branch Ridgewood, the name of a LIRR station in Ridgewood, Queens Ridgewood,
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#1732848448888156-537: Was renamed Ridgewood State School. It closed circa 1961. It was on Cooroy Belli Creek Road (approx 26°27′12″S 152°49′30″E / 26.4532°S 152.8251°E / -26.4532; 152.8251 ( Ridgewood State School (former) ) ). Between 2008 and 2013, Ridgewood (and the rest of the Shire of Noosa) was within Sunshine Coast Region due to an unpopular local government amalgamation that
169-426: Was subsequently reversed. In the 2006 census , Ridgewood had a population of 612 people. In the 2016 census , Ridgewood had a population of 307 people. In the 2021 census , Ridgewood had a population of 317 people. There are no schools in Ridgewood. The nearest government primary schools are Cooroy State School in neighbouring Cooroy to the north-east, Federal State School in neighbouring Federal to
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