Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Ridgeland, MS

Ridgeland is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, and part of the Jackson metropolitan area.

The population was 24,340 at the 2020 census, with 10,751 households.

Ridgeland is a suburban city in southern Madison County between Madison to the north and Jackson, the state capital, to the south, and the Ross Barnett Reservoir borders the city to the east.

In 1805, the Choctaw Indian Agency headed by Silas Dinsmoor was located in what is now Ridgeland, in a structure then called Turner Brashear's Stand that was later adapted as the King's Inn hotel, which during the Civil War served as headquarters for General Stephen Lee and operated until it was destroyed by fire in 1896.

In 1853, James B. Yellowley founded the community of Yellowley's Crossing, later named Jessamine after his wife, and in 1896 two Chicago real estate developers, Edward Treakle and Gordon Nichols, purchased the land, formed the Highland Colony Company, and created plans for a town to be named Ridgeland, advertising to entice people from the northern United States to move south.

Agriculture was the community's dominant early revenue source, with pears and strawberries as the leading crops grown for sale.

Rapid growth in Ridgeland's population began in the 1960s, and Northpark Mall, the largest mall in the Jackson metro area, opened in 1984 and brought more growth to the area.

C Spire Wireless, the sixth largest wireless provider in the United States, Cal-Maine Foods, the largest shell egg producer in the United States, and the tech company Bomgar are all headquartered in Ridgeland.

Ridgeland is served by the Madison County School District as well as two private schools, Saint Andrew's Episcopal School and Christ Covenant School, and it has a campus of Holmes Community College.

Country music singer Faith Hill was born and raised in Ridgeland until moving to nearby Star when she was in the 8th grade.