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Arling, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cascade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83611. It stands on Hot Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Donnelly quadrangle.

Arling within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Arling between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 2 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
Natural38
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFIRECRACKER
9 September 2012Other causesunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWAGON WHEEL MCLEOD
7 September 2009Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestPOISON
30 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.8 acresBoise National ForestARLING
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSUGAR LOAF
27 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBADLEY
24 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSUMMIT
22 September 2015Debris and open burning6.1 acresIdaho Department of LandsWILDWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Arling: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, REE. 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
West Mountain PlacersREEUnknown
Badley Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hot Creek SpringsGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arling in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindArling-An NWS Employee reported severe winds and large waves on Lake Cascade.

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
MacGregor (historical)4.9 miles13
Roseberry7.3 miles13
Donnelly7.5 miles13
Cascade7.5 miles13
Belvidere10.4 miles17
Spink11.4 miles13
Norwood13.0 miles13
Cabarton13.1 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122546066The 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 397390. 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.