Reger is an unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located along Missouri Route 6, approximately six miles southwest of Milan. Locust Creek flows past just to the east.[2]

Reger was laid out in 1881.[3] The community has the name of O. M. Reger, an early citizen.[4] A post office called Reger was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1968.[5]

Henry Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[6]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Reger, Missouri
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.22 ISBN 0899332242
  3. ↑ "Sullivan County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1918). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 367.
  5. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

40°08′38″N 93°11′34″W / 40.14389°N 93.19278°W / 40.14389; -93.19278


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