Talk:Ridgefield, Washington

message: Hmmm. No mention of the Sara Community?
Sara is a community or populated place (Class Code U6) located in Clark County at latitude 45.752 and longitude -122.713 (Sara Panoramio Photos). The elevation is 135 feet. Sara appears on the Ridgefield U.S. Geological Survey Map. Clark County is in the Pacific time zone (GMT -8).
http://washington.hometownlocator.com/wa/clark/sara.cfm
Sara is in between the heart of Ridgefield and the Clark County Fairgrounds, so if the Clark County Fairgrounds can be considered as "in Ridgefield" then so should the community of Sara.
Doubledragons (talk) 10:03, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sara

message: Ridgefield was two towns, basically, from what I can tell, the town of Sara, and the town of Union Ridge. Union Ridge is mentioned, but Sara is not. And from what I can tell, the entire area was called Cathlapotle before it was called anything else, but the only mention of Cathlapotle is the Cathlapotle plankhouse in what is now known as the "Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge." Just F.Y.I. for anyone who has the time to edit this article with the proper sources.
Doubledragons (talk) 20:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Cathlapotle

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Ridgefield, Washington. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20121115232718/http://www.census.gov:80/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt to http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
Cheers. —cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 19:05, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified  on Ridgefield, Washington. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20110721034521/http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST13&prodType=table to http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST13&prodType=table
*Added archive http://www.webcitation.org/6YSasqtfX to http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).
Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 09:06, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Would it not be best to name it for the park that the land was used for, that is Jefferson Davis Park. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 08:10, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming 'Recent History' section 

message: Would it not be better to have Jefferson Davis Park better sourced than just one; could we not add additional references given then issues surrounding the park.  I would recommend: 
But please supply others. Thanks
C. W. Gilmore (talk) 08:40, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent history references 

message: **In 2007, a plot of private land in Ridgefield directly adjoining busy Interstate 5 was purchased for $15,000 by the Pacific Northwest chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans, a nonprofit whose members have ancestral ties to Confederate soldiers. Three Confederate flags fly at "Jefferson Davis Park", along with two stone markers honoring Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.   Stone markers had come from both ends of the state designating Highway 99 the "Jeff Davis Highway" were erected in the 1930s by the Daughters of the Confederacy, with State approval. They were removed in 2002 through the efforts of State Representative Hans Dunshee and city officials, and after it was discovered that the highway was never officially designated to memorialize Davis by the State. Clark County Historic Preservation Commission on October 2, 2017, voted unanimously to remove the granite highway marker from its local heritage list.
Please give your input, thanksC. W. Gilmore (talk) 16:21, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested re-write

message: This edit, ostensibly about the town's founding onehundred-forty years ago, instead centered on the editor's obsessive topic, removal of Confederate monuments. Anmccaff (talk) 20:54, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for returning the information and for finding another source for the information that you approve of, as it is all about the improvement of the articles.  Thanks  C. W. Gilmore (talk) 01:52, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: , sorry to both you but is there a slight problem with your reference link?  It has some red areas when I scanned across the link.  Thanks again for your input.  C. W. Gilmore (talk) 14:51, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further Coatracking removed. 

message: Should the largest news story in the Ridgefield area and the city's response to it for the past 10yrs be included in this article?  I posted this section updating the history of the city:
More recently the town of Ridgefield, has become the center of the controvercy of flying the Confederate flags and Confederate monuments, even though the nearby Jefferson Davis Park is located outside the city limits. Mayor Ron Onslow said, "We get calls about it every time the Confederacy comes up". Although Jefferson Davis Park has a Ridgefield address, "It's not in our city, so we have no say over it. We're not against history, but there is no history of this in Ridgefield", Onslow said in requesting the memorial at the park, be removed from the Clark County Historical Register. On October 2, 2017, the commissioners of the city of Ridgefield officially and unanimously asked the Clark County Historic Preservation Commission to remove the Jefferson Davis Highway marker, from Vancouver, Washington, from its local heritage list, which the Commission did.
Yet some editor removed it stating it was "WP:WEIGHT, WP:RECENT."  Does anyone else have thoughts on whether it or something like it should be included in this article?  C. W. Gilmore (talk) 19:54, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The city council voted to remove a marker that was outside the city from a list that has only symbolic meaning? Trivial zoning changes would be more significant, but per WP:NOTNEWS we exclude them, so symbolic gestures should also be excluded. BillHPike (talk, contribs) 20:03, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , please name one other time in the history of Washington state that a city asked for a historical site to be 'delisted' that was not even within the limits of the city or town?  This action was historic, unique, notable (as it continues to be in the news some six months later), and shows the deep desire of the community of Rigefield to distance themselves for this controversial 'park'.  This is why a note regarding this very unusual action needs a place in this article.  The tensions over this 'park' began with it being placed just outside the town limits being vandalised within 6mos of it's opening in 2008.  It continues to be so with three reports of vandalism since August of 2017 and the latest being this January with the flags being cut down.  By your logic the mention of the near by Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge and it's Cathlapotle plank house should also be removed as the actual refuge lay outside the city limits as well.  C. W. Gilmore (talk) 23:32, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The biggest thing to happen in Ridgefield area in decades, and the city's response. 

message: Helpful information found:
   - C. W. Gilmore (talk) 05:52, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  References to look into for historical background: