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Dry Ridge is a home rule-class city in Grant County, Kentucky, just south of its neighbor and county seat, Williamstown.

The community was settled about 1792 as Campbell's Station, near a spring reputed to have medicinal qualities.

A post office called Dry Ridge was established in 1815 at an inn, and the town takes its name from a ridge surrounded by inns where travelers stopped for water before proceeding.

Dry Ridge was incorporated in 1909, the last community in Grant County to do so.

That same year, 1909, a creamery company struck mineral water believed to have medical properties, launching the town's mineral-water era.

From around 1910 to 1960, Dry Ridge's economy was dominated by its mineral water wells; the Kentucky Carlsbad Mineral Water Bottling Company bottled the water, and visitors from across the eastern United States came to the Kentucky Carlsbad Springs, which was actually a well rather than a natural spring.

The Carlsbad Hotel, completed in 1911 to serve the mineral-water trade, was destroyed by fire on February 25, 1927.

The population of Dry Ridge was 2,102 at the 2020 census, down slightly from its peak of 2,191 in 2010, and the 2020 census counted 815 households in the city.

Dry Ridge has grown dramatically since the early 20th century, when the 1910 census counted only 143 residents.

Interstate 75 passes through Dry Ridge at Exit 159, about 35 miles south of Cincinnati and 49 miles north of Lexington, while U.S. Route 25 serves as the city's Main Street.