Vanar, Arizona
Populated place
Vanar is located in Arizona
Vanar
Vanar
Location within the state of Arizona
Vanar is located in the United States
Vanar
Vanar
Vanar (the United States)
Coordinates: 32°14′28″N 109°05′42″W / 32.24111°N 109.09500°W / 32.24111; -109.09500
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
CountyCochise
Elevation
[1]
3,917 ft (1,194 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (MST)
Area code520
FIPS code04-79240
GNIS feature ID24673

Vanar was a station on the Southern Pacific railroad and populated place situated in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to the border with New Mexico.[2] It has an estimated elevation of 3,917 feet (1,194 m) above sea level.[1] The community was originally named Vanarman after Hiram M. Van Arman, and the name was shortened for telegraph purposes in 1905 to Vanar.[3]

The station was along the railroad's route through eastern Arizona, constructed in 1880.[4] One of the railroad's work camps was located there.[5] Once a junction was made in March 1881 with eastern rails in Deming, New Mexico, the line was the second transcontinental rail route across the United States.[6]

As of 1915, there was a retail store located there.[7] The following year a post office was established there.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Feature Detail Report for: Vanar". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "Vanar (in Cochise County, AZ) Populated Place Profile". AZ Hometown Locator. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Influence of Bad Habit". Arizona Republican. 1905-05-16. p. 5. ISSN 2157-135X. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  4. ↑ Soil Survey of the San Simon Area Arizona, p. 585 (1924)
  5. ↑ Burns, Allen. A Social and Educational History of Willcox, Arizona, in Rural America: A Social and Educational History of Ten Communities, Vol. 1, p. 150 (1975)
  6. ↑ (12 March 1881). Completion of the New Trans-Continental Route, Pacific Rural Press
  7. ↑ "Auto Tourist Logs Sunset Short Line". The Benson Signal. 1915-07-10. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  8. ↑ "Pension Granted". Bisbee Daily Review. 1916-10-31. p. 5. ISSN 2157-3255. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
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