Pleasant Ridge is an unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri, United States. [1] The community is located on Pleasant Ridge Road, approximately three-quarters of a mile southwest of Upton and about ten miles west of Houston. [2] [3]
A post office called Pleasant Ridge was established in 1877, the name was changed to Pleasantridge in 1894, and the post office closed in 1909. [4] The community was so named on account of the "pleasant" setting of the original town site. [5]