Dry Ridge, Kentucky

Dry Ridge is a home rule-class city in Grant County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 2,191 at the 2010 census, up from 1,995 at the 2000 census.GeographyDry Ridge is located north of the center of Grant County at . It is bordered to the south by the city of Williamstown, the county seat. Interstate 75 passes through Dry Ridge, with access from Exit 159. I-75 leads north to Cincinnati and south to Lexington. U.S. Route 25 runs through the center of Dry Ridge, leading north 7mi to Crittenden and south 4mi to the center of Williamstown.According to the United States Census Bureau, Dry Ridge has a total area of 11.8km2, of which 0.09sqkm, or 0.72%, is water.HistoryThe community now known as Dry Ridge was settled about 1792 as "Campbell's Station" near a spring said to have medicinal qualities.A post office called "Dry Ridge" was established in 1815 at an inn. Dry Ridge takes its name from a ridge surrounded by inns where travelers stopped for water before proceeding.During the early part of the 20th century, Dry Ridge was the home of Kentucky Carlsbad Mineral Water Bottling Company, and home of the Carlsbad Hotel completed in 1911. People came to Dry Ridge from all over the eastern United States to take the mineral water of what was known as the Kentucky Carlsbad Springs, although it was not a spring, but a well. The hotel was destroyed by fire on February 25, 1927.