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.
Population over time
2 figuresArlington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 473 | |
| 2020 | 435 | -38 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1892 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 37 |
| 27 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1,100 acres | Quivira National Wildlife Refuge | STERLING RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 62 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | $50,000 | A tractor trailer was blown over on K-61. No injuries were reported. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Arlington | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | $7,500 | Power poles spanning a 1 mile long segment of K-61 were blown down. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | $5,000 | Tree limbs and power lines were downed in Arlington. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Arlington | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | $200 | Some tree limbs were downed. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Arlington | $50 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Heavy Rain | Arlington | - | Twenty four hour total of a Cocorahs observer of 1.30 inches. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Arlington | - | Penny sized hail was falling with torrential rainfall. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | No damage was reported. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | The report was relayed by the Emergency Manager. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Arlington | - | A trained spotter also estimated 60 mph winds. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | The trained spotter also reported quarter size hail. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Power outages were noted in town. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | A trained spotter reported the wind gust. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | A trained spotter reported wind gusts between 65 and 80 mph. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Arlington | - | The hail fell along highway K-61. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | A large tree was downed and laying across the road near the intersection of Arlington and Sterling roads. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Arlington | - | Estimated winds of 30 mph occurred with the hail. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Arlington | - | Hail stones averaged 1-inch in diameter, with periodic stones reaching 2 inches in diameter. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Winds estimated by spotters. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Arlington | - | The tornado touched down in an open field. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Tree and unspecified structural damage. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Arlington | - | Brief tornado touched down at Arlington. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | 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 Q2353888 | 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 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.





