Goofy Ridge, IL

Goofy Ridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Quiver Township, Mason County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 210, residents. Goofy Ridge is given Topeka mailing addresses. Years back it was just The Ridge, a camp near the river bank where moonshiners and other carousers met weekly to do their drinking. A newcomer can read Goofy Ridge through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Goofy Ridge comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.