Welcome to Arena ...
Although we found mention of Arena during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Arena was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
While we are confident that Arena was located in Chaffee County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Arena to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Arena - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Arena, please Contact Us.
The origin (or the toponymy) of Arena: Spanish for 'sand'
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Arena might be (or was) located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Arena would be found within the (719) area code.
Adding Arena to Our Gazetteer ...
Our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Arena was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
We also found Arena in the The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (Second Edition).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Arena on our Genealogy Page.
Communities Also Named Arena ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are two Colorado communities named Arena: This one is located in Chaffee County and the other is located in Cheyenne County.
Beyond Colorado, there are 8 communities that are also named Arena - they are located in California, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Saskatchewan and Wisconsin.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Arena.
Other Roadside Stops ...
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chaffee County: www.chaffeecounty.org/
The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Arena and then turned west". While Arena could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Arena as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Arena could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |