mystery localities

[Robin Leech]

Doug,
Is it possibly now under water?  Check out also the name Queen
and equivalents in English for Regina.
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Yanega" <dyanega at POP.UCR.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: mystery localities


> Neither the USGS database nor the Alexandria Digital Gazetteer seem
> to have any record of the locality "Regina, Imperial County, CA" -
> either as a present name, a variant name, or a name from an adjacent
> area (it's very unlikely to be from anywhere other than Imperial
> County or the immediate vicinity). Having exhausted the two best
> sources I know, does anyone else have an idea where, exactly, this
> locality is/was? Was it possibly the name of a farm or ranch, and if
> so, are there any resources that can retrieve such names? In a
> similar vein, I cannot turn up the location of "Lum Del Mine" in
> either of these resources. It is almost certainly from either San
> Bernardino or Inyo county, CA.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
>
> Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
> Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
> phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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