Tagus
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 48.346, -101.934
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: The town was founded in 1900, approximately forty miles west of Minot and along the Great Northern Railway's transcontinental route.
History
Tagus is a ghost town in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States. The town was founded in 1900, approximately forty miles west of Minot and along the Great Northern Railway's transcontinental route. It was incorporated in 1908 and reached a peak population of 140 in 1940. It was originally named Wallace, but was later renamed Tagus to avoid confusion with the town of Wallace, Idaho. It was named after the Tagus river, the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.