Currant is an unincorporated community in Nye County, Nevada.

Settled in 1868, it was first a farming town with a small population.

Currant post office opened April 16, 1883, was reestablished September 19, 1892, and again August 31, 1926, operations suspended December 31, 1943.

[1] In the late 1930s, small but highly productive claims of magnesite deposits were discovered in Nye County while major deposits were in Ely in White Pine County, Nevada, and magnesite mining stopped in 1942.

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