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] 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. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Vanar, Arizona
  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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