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Ringgold is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northwestern Montague County, on U.S. Highways 81 and 82 about 20 miles northwest of Montague, the county seat.

Although Anglo-American settlers were in the area by the early 1870s, the town only took shape in 1892, when the Rock Island railroad reached the crossing with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line and landowner Joe Harris laid out a townsite, selling lots for fifty to seventy-five dollars.

Harris first named the town Harrisonia for himself, but postal authorities rejected the name as too similar to other Texas towns, so he renamed it Ringgold after his wife's family name; the post office opened in 1892 and a school followed in 1893.

Sitting at the junction of two rail lines, Ringgold became a market center for surrounding farms and peaked in the mid-1920s with more than 400 residents and 18 businesses.

On January 1, 2006, a wildfire destroyed about half of the town, burning 32 homes.

Ringgold was counted as a census-designated place for the first time in the 2020 census, which recorded 146 residents.