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Arrington, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Kapioma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66436. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arrington quadrangle.

Arrington within Atchison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Arrington between 2015 and 2020, burning about 67 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service48
22 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service39
14 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018035
29 February 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service17
27 February 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
26 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service2018022
18 February 2017Debris and open burning15 acresAtchison County2017017
16 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAtchison County2017014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arrington in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2013: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 1993Tornado (F2)Arrington$500,000The tornado formed west of Arrington near Highway K116 moved north along the Delware River bottom crossing the river 0.5 miles west of Muscotah, then moved northeast through open country before dissipating five miles west of Huron near the county lake. The Tornado was not on the ground continuously but bounced up and down leaving many areas undamaged. At least four farmsteads sustained significant damage along with many trees and numerous power poles and cable. No injures or deaths were reported.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindArrington-Severe thunderstorm winds gusted to 65 MPH at Arrington. Strong winds from the same severe thunderstorm damaged the roof of a building in Muscotah.
July 1995HailArrington-Dime-size hail was reported near Arrington.
June 2013HailArrington-no account filed
March 2006HailArrington-no account filed
March 2006HailArrington-no account filed
April 2005HailArrington-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindArrington-no account filed
February 2004HailArrington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atchison 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
Larkinburg1.8 miles18
Muscotah6.3 miles18
Effingham8.3 miles20
Monrovia10.9 miles20
Farmington12.6 miles20
Kennekuk12.7 miles20
Lancaster14.5 miles20
Cummings15.3 miles21

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 ArringtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17182594The 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 478219. 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.