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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.

Arlington within Fayette County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Arlington 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.

YearPeople Change
2010429
2020419-10 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources5026 40TH ST., IA
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bassett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Northrup QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Flash FloodArlington$75,000Heavy 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 2010Thunderstorm WindArlington$32,000Severe 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 2008Flash FloodArlington$25,000Water was reported over Highway 150 south of Maynard and sections of Highway 3 in the far south end of Fayette County.
September 2001Tornado (F1)Arlington$25,000no account filed
September 2018FloodArlington$10,000After thunderstorms with locally heavy rain moved across Fayette County, water covered some roads across the county and street flooding occurred in Arlington.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindArlington$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down an outbuilding northwest of Arlington along G Avenue.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindArlington$10,000no account filed
April 2010HailArlington$8,250Amateur radio operators reported thirteen skylight windows and some vehicles were damaged at the Starmont High School.
July 2010FloodArlington$5,000Amateur 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 2003HailArlington$1,000no account filed
May 2001HailArlington$800no account filed
May 2008HailArlington$500Public reported ping pong size hail, which cracked a window on a house.
September 2018Heavy RainArlington-Near Arlington, 5.3 inches of rain fell.
July 2010FloodArlington-Main street in the town of Arlington was reported to be impassable due to rising water.
June 2008HailArlington-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindArlington-no account filed
July 2004Tornado (F0)Arlington-no account filed
July 2004Funnel CloudArlington-no account filed
May 2003HailArlington-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindArlington-no account filed
July 2003HailArlington-no account filed
July 2003HailArlington-no account filed
May 1999HailArlington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Taylorsville1.8 miles12
Maryville4.5 miles12
Scott6.0 miles12
Wadena6.5 miles12
Lima9.1 miles12
Albany9.3 miles12
Fayette9.4 miles12
Illyria10.5 miles12

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 Q1762861The 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.