Lime Ridge is a village in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.01 square miles (2.62 km2), all of it land.

[7][8] The earliest settlers of Lime Ridge, as they arrived in the late 1850s, cleared the land of timber to plant crops, though others used the hardwood to make and sell railroad ties and stave bolts.

[10] In 1867, Wesley Marsh opened a store, which was sold a few years later to John T. Pollock, and again in 1876 to Robert L. Bohn, an Ohio family that also built a dam and sawmill.

Bohn bought hardwood timber from area farmers and converted it to barrel staves shipped to urban markets.

[10] Bohn also opened a hotel and in 1909 founded the State Bank of Lime Ridge.

After the population of German immigrants rose, in 1906 Trinity Lutheran church was built to serve that community.

[12] The Great Depression together with World War II proved crippling to the local economy; the bank and hotel closed, and several other businesses followed.