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Ringgold is a city in and the county seat of Catoosa County, Georgia, and it is part of the Chattanooga metropolitan area.

Ringgold was founded in 1846 and incorporated as a city in 1847, and it was named after Samuel Ringgold, a hero of the Battle of Palo Alto in the Mexican–American War.

The population of Ringgold was 3,414 at the 2020 census, living in 1,515 households.

Ringgold is where the locomotive The General stopped during the Great Locomotive Chase on April 12, 1862, and the historic Ringgold Depot still bears bullet marks from the Civil War.

At the Battle of Ringgold Gap on November 27, 1863, Confederate Major General Patrick Cleburne with about 4,100 men used the mountain pass to stall Union Major General Joseph Hooker's force of more than 12,000, covering the Confederate retreat and wagon trains.

The Whitman-Anderson House in Ringgold, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, served as General Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters after the Confederates evacuated the town.

On April 27, 2011, an EF4 tornado tore through Ringgold and Catoosa County, killing nine people in Ringgold and damaging or destroying many homes, businesses, and schools.

Country singer Dolly Parton married her husband, Carl Dean, in Ringgold in May 1966.

U.S. Routes 41 and 76 run through the center of Ringgold as Nashville Street, Interstate 75 passes through the southern part of the city at Exit 348, and downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, lies about 17 miles to the northwest.

Ringgold sits in the Valley and Ridge province of the Appalachians, where Taylor Ridge is cut by the Ringgold Gap just east of downtown and South Chickamauga Creek flows through the city, giving it a humid subtropical climate.