Arlington, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50606. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle. 419 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.
On record in Arlington
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- August Nus Polygonal Barnlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresArlington fell from 429 to 419 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 429 | |
| 2020 | 419 | -10 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Oelwein quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Oelwein quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 2009 and 2011, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 5026 40TH ST., IA |
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Arlington: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bassett Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Northrup Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Arlington | $75,000 | Heavy rains caused several small streams that feed the Maquoketa River to go out of their banks south of Arlington. At least three roads were closed due to washouts or water over the road. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | $32,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds caused the roofs of two hog confinement buildings to cave in on a farm on County Road W45 (G Avenue). Media reports indicate several hogs had to later be destroyed due to the extent of their injuries suffered when the building collapsed. Several other farm buildings in the area were also damaged or blown down. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Arlington | $25,000 | Water was reported over Highway 150 south of Maynard and sections of Highway 3 in the far south end of Fayette County. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Arlington | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Flood | Arlington | $10,000 | After thunderstorms with locally heavy rain moved across Fayette County, water covered some roads across the county and street flooding occurred in Arlington. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down an outbuilding northwest of Arlington along G Avenue. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Arlington | $8,250 | Amateur radio operators reported thirteen skylight windows and some vehicles were damaged at the Starmont High School. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Arlington | $5,000 | Amateur radio operators reported gravel road shoulders washed out in many spots along State Highway 187. Also, several acres of farm fields were under water but there were no subsequent reports as to whether the crops were damaged. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Arlington | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Arlington | $800 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Arlington | $500 | Public reported ping pong size hail, which cracked a window on a house. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Arlington | - | Near Arlington, 5.3 inches of rain fell. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Arlington | - | Main street in the town of Arlington was reported to be impassable due to rising water. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Arlington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1762861 | The 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 454230. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






