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Arlington, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36722. The Survey maps it on the Kimbrough quadrangle. It stands 194 feet above sea level.

Arlington within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

127 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,474 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Debris and open burning4.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Recreation and ceremony15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200927-1
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-7
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Arlington-The tornado entered Wilcox County from Marengo County |just southwest of County Road 32 and lifted near County Road 30.|The most significant damage occurred along County Road 32 where numerous|pine trees were snapped. A mobile home was heavily damaged by a large |pine tree. Additional trees were either uprooted or snapped along the|path with the tornado weakening as it approached County Road 30 just|east of Lamison. Many thanks to NWS Birmingham with their assistance with|this survey. ||The same storm has also resulted in numerous trees being downed across |Wilcox County from straight line winds.

Every storm recorded in Wilcox County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Anne Manie1.0 miles9
Kimbrough2.0 miles9
Lamison4.6 miles9
Pine Hill5.3 miles7
MacMillan6.8 miles7
Sunny South6.9 miles8
Flatwood7.2 miles9
Boiling Springs8.3 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ArlingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11285768The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 154968. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.