Arlington, Indiana

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.

• 1908 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:48000
• 1910 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1998 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000

1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 2003 and 2008, burning about 57 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lancaster Park
• Ellettsville
• Forest Park Heights
• Highland Village
• Hunter Switch
• West Brook Downs

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Arlington: 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 430244. 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.