Pine Ridge, Oklahoma

From Oklahoma

Pine Ridge is a unincorporated community that is 6 miles south and 1/2 mile west of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma in Caddo County. During the community's heyday in the 1940's there were a Grocery Store, a Baptist Church and a Church of Christ, but today only the Baptist Church building remains (which is now used as a barn). The Pleasant View Cemetery also is at Pine Ridge and has graves from many of the early pioneers of the community.

According to locals, the community got its name from the community of Pine Ridge, Arkansas that was the setting of the radio show Lum and Abner which aired from 1934-1952. Legend says that the owner of the grocery store named it "Pine Ridge" after the radio show and over time the name was adopted as the name of the whole community.

Pine Ridge is located at the junction of the blacktop road going directly south from Fort Cobb and the old Ozark Trail (an early predecessor to Route 66).

The Pine Ridge Community mostly consists of wheat and hay farming and cattle ranching. There is also a winery east of Pine Ridge on the Ozark Trail (Woods and Waters Winery and Vineyard).

Public school students in Pine Ridge attend Fort Cobb-Broxton public schools. Telephone numbers for the Pine Ridge area are split between the Fort Cobb and Apache prefixes.