Arlington, Missouri

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Arlington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65550. It stands on Little Piney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newburg quadrangle.

Arlington within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 25 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.

1912 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:24000
2004 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,229 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	38
Debris and open burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
4 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
31 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	P HIGHWAY
23 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	PJ WF
2 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	FIREBALL
16 August 1992	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 August 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	WESTERN STAR
27 July 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Arlington: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unk	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jerome Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Lead	Past Producer
Agricultural College Land	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Gottscall	Iron	Occurrence
Ozark Branch Bank	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Unk	Iron	Past Producer
Unk	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Phelps 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jerome	0.5 miles	25
Powellville	3.1 miles	20
Sugartree	3.3 miles	25
Table Rock	3.3 miles	25
Newburg	3.6 miles	25
Clementine	3.9 miles	20
Doolittle	5.0 miles	25
Westcott (historical)	5.2 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 748611. 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.