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Arlington, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Arlington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67514. It stands on Skinnawah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle. 435 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,594 feet above sea level.

Arlington within Reno County

Population over time

2 figures

Arlington fell from 473 to 435 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
2010473
2020435-38 (-8%)

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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 2006 and 2015, burning about 1,100 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
30 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service37
27 March 2006Debris and open burning1,100 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeSTERLING RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Storms near this place

60 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington in 62 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 40 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2014Thunderstorm WindArlington$50,000A tractor trailer was blown over on K-61. No injuries were reported.
May 1998HailArlington$40,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindArlington$7,500Power poles spanning a 1 mile long segment of K-61 were blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindArlington$5,000Tree limbs and power lines were downed in Arlington.
May 1993HailArlington$5,000no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindArlington$200Some tree limbs were downed.
April 1994HailArlington$50no account filed
June 2023Heavy RainArlington-Twenty four hour total of a Cocorahs observer of 1.30 inches.
July 2023HailArlington-Penny sized hail was falling with torrential rainfall.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindArlington-No damage was reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindArlington-The report was relayed by the Emergency Manager.
April 2015HailArlington-A trained spotter also estimated 60 mph winds.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindArlington-The trained spotter also reported quarter size hail.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindArlington-Power outages were noted in town.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindArlington-A trained spotter reported the wind gust.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindArlington-A trained spotter reported wind gusts between 65 and 80 mph.
May 2012HailArlington-The hail fell along highway K-61.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindArlington-A large tree was downed and laying across the road near the intersection of Arlington and Sterling roads.
May 2010HailArlington-Estimated winds of 30 mph occurred with the hail.
April 2010HailArlington-Hail stones averaged 1-inch in diameter, with periodic stones reaching 2 inches in diameter.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindArlington-Winds estimated by spotters.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Arlington-The tornado touched down in an open field.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindArlington-Tree and unspecified structural damage.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Arlington-Brief tornado touched down at Arlington.
April 2026HailArlington-no account filed
July 2015HailArlington-no account filed
May 2012HailArlington-no account filed
May 2012HailArlington-no account filed
May 2012HailArlington-no account filed
May 2012HailArlington-no account filed
May 2012HailArlington-no account filed
May 2012HailArlington-no account filed
May 2012HailArlington-no account filed
September 2010HailArlington-no account filed
June 2009HailArlington-no account filed
April 2008HailArlington-no account filed
April 2008HailArlington-no account filed
April 2008HailArlington-no account filed
May 2007HailArlington-no account filed
May 2007HailArlington-no account filed
April 2006HailArlington-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindArlington-no account filed
July 2006HailArlington-no account filed
April 2005HailArlington-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindArlington-no account filed
June 2005HailArlington-no account filed
June 2005HailArlington-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindArlington-no account filed
May 2004HailArlington-no account filed
March 2003HailArlington-no account filed
July 2003HailArlington-no account filed
March 2002HailArlington-no account filed
March 2002HailArlington-no account filed
March 2002HailArlington-no account filed
April 2002HailArlington-no account filed
April 2002HailArlington-no account filed
May 1996HailArlington-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F1)Arlington-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindArlington-no account filed
May 1995HailArlington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno 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
Abbyville5.3 miles13
Partridge6.7 miles13
Langdon8.3 miles13
Plevna8.6 miles13
Lerado10.0 miles13
Charters Corner11.1 miles14
Castleton11.3 miles14
Whiteside11.6 miles16

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 Q2353888The 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 473622. 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.