The Reese River is a tributary of the Humboldt River, and is located in central Nevada in the United States. It arises in the southern Toiyabe Range, on the flanks of Arc Dome. It then flows north between the Toiyabe Range and the Shoshone Range for approximately half its length, then passes through a low point in the Shoshone Range and continues north between that range and the Fish Creek Mountains. It joins the Humboldt River near Battle Mountain.
In its upper reaches, the Reese River is a fast-flowing mountain stream surrounded by relatively lush growth including Aspen groves and Cottonwood trees. Once it exits the Toiyabe Range it becomes a slow, muddy stream and in most years dwindles into a chain of shallow pools long before it reaches the Humboldt River. Its waters are used for irrigation by scattered farms along its lower reaches.
The river is highly variable in flow, generally decreasing in volume downstream to the west, in part due to the removal of water from the river for irrigation.
The region of the river in northern Nevada was sparsely inhabited by the Paiute and Shoshone at the time of the arrival of European settlers.
In 1869 the river was used as part of the route of the Central Pacific segment of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Jacob Reese, the second son of William Reese, was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of Franklin Institute, and of the Philadelphia Academy of Philadelphia; a thirty-second-degree Mason and a Master Mason for fifty-two years.
Reese was the inventor of the first silica fire brick, for furnace linings, in the United States, his first experiment being made at his Apollo works, previous to the panic of 1873.
Reese taught, "if it means loss, the burnt offering is still costly." She was another witness to the "truth" and left to her children and grandchildren the imperishable legacy.
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