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Arlington, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Richmond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40475. It stands on Irvine Lick. The Survey maps it on the Richmond North quadrangle.

Arlington within Madison County

On record in Arlington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 8 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 1999 and 2008, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2008Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 November 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 November 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Rosedale (historical)0.5 miles16
Hillcrest1.0 miles16
Richmond1.1 miles17
Million4.4 miles15
Reeds Crossing4.8 miles15
Caleast5.0 miles17
Redhouse5.3 miles16
Newby5.7 miles15

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 Q49344544The 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 486030. 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.