Welcome to Arapahoe ...

So far, we found very little information about Arapahoe. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Arapahoe to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Arapahoe - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Arapahoe, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Arapahoe , we believe that it would have been located within present day Finney County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Arapahoe, you might consider that their post office opened in 1885.

The Area Code where Arapahoe was located: 620

Communities Also Named Arapahoe ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Kansas communities named Arapahoe: This one is located in Finney County and the other is located in Dickinson County.

Beyond Kansas, there are 8 communities that are also named Arapahoe - they are located in Colorado (4), Nebraska, North Carolina and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Arapahoe.

Adding Arapahoe to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Arapahoe was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Arapahoe post office opened in 1885.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Arapahoe.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Finney County: www.finneycounty.org/

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Arapahoe, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Finney, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/