Do you know of Ragan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ragan. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Ragan.<1>
Our sources wasn't clear whether Ragan was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Ragan would be found somewhere in Uinta County, Wyoming.
Communities Also Named Ragan ...
We found three communities that share the name Ragan.
Within Wyoming, the name Ragan is unique.
Beyond Wyoming, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ragan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ragan:
North American Railroad Atlas - Mountain Plains
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2000
(Available from Amazon.com)
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
The FIPS database contains an entry for Ragan.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 56/63175 (Place Name: Ragan)
County: Uinta (FIPS State/County: 56/041)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Ragan) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Uinta County ...
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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Uinta County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others. |
| <2> | Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices. |
| <3> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Ragan could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |