Regan, Nevada

Regan is a ghost town, a historical mining town, and a former populated place in White Pine County, Nevada.[1] It had its own Regan post office from August 1906 to November 1907.[2] [3]:109 Its site lies at an elevation of 6,863 feet / 2,092 meters, in Tippett Canyon in the South Mountains.[1] [4]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Regan (historical)
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Regan Post Office (historical)
  3. Gamett, James, and Paher, Stanley W., Nevada Post Offices, Nevada Publications, Las Vegas, 1983, 176 pp. Discusses historical background of Nevada post offices.
  4. Note: coordinates for the site are approximate, based on the map of 'Nevada' made by National Map Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, no date (map states it uses data from the 1920 census, and the acquisition data by the Nevada Historical Society was 1923). Full color map showing railroads, mountains, roads, communities, and springs, at scale of 1 inch=11 miles.

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