Lund, Nevada
town in Nevada, USA
Lund is a small town and census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada, United States. The population of Lund as of 2020 was 211.
Toponymy
When members from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints settled in the area, Lund was named for Anthon H. Lund, a Mormon church official. Before the advent of the LDS people, the town site and spring were named for Tom Plane, an earlier occupant.
History
In the early 1870s, Tom Plane operated a ranch based near Lund Spring. He employed ranch hands that grew feed and food and raised live stock to support needs of the mining towns. His ranch house was a welcome respite for travelers on the Hamilton-Pioche road. Later, James R. Withington gained ownership of Tom Plane's ranch and built White Pine County's first flour mill at the Tom Plane's spring head.
Lund was settled in 1898 on land that the United States government had given the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in lieu of land that had been confiscated under the Edmunds–Tucker Act. The first settlers were Latter-day Saints, and the LDS Church still has a ward in Lund.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lund, Nevada” as town in Nevada, USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as town in Nevada, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2636551. VIAF identifies the subject as 130643800. The Library of Congress control number is nr2001017271. Authority coordinates are 38.856, -115.006. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1898.
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