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Arlington, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Arlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97812. It lies near Alkali Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle. 628 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 285 feet above sea level.

Arlington within Gilliam County

Population over time

3 figures

Arlington grew from 524 to 628 between 2000 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
2000524
2010586+62 (+12%)
2020628+42 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 2005 and 2020, burning about 7,017 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/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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresSpokane DistrictHWY 14 MP130
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.3 acresSpokane DistrictCOYOTE
23 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,400 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWOOD GULCH
14 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use500 acresNorth Gilliam County Rural Fire Protection District0410 RN
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,107 acresPrineville District0461

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilliam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Arlington: 11 past producers, 10 producers, 1 occurrence. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
RooseveltGemstoneOccurrence
Arlington Relocation PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Old Airport Road PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Old State QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arlington Relocation PitStonePast Producer
Arlington Rock ProductsStonePast Producer
Mistake QuarryStonePast Producer
Old Airport Road PitStonePast Producer
Old State QuarryStonePast Producer
Airport Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gilliam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindArlington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gilliam 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
Eddy (historical)1.3 miles12
Montague (historical)8.4 miles11
Rock Creek11.2 miles12
Olex15.3 miles11
Quinook (historical)15.9 miles12
Mikkalo17.1 miles11
Clem20.4 miles11
Alville (historical)29.9 miles11

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 Q2140579The 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 1167692. 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.

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.