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Arlington, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Arlington City. It lies in ZIP code area 57212. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle. 915 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,844 feet above sea level.

Arlington within Kingsbury 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 5 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 1999 and 2016, burning about 263 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY !4 CRP
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDALE ROYER
10 May 2004Railroad operations and maintenance31 acresMadison Wetland Management DistrictDRY LAKE 04
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDENNIS CONVERSE FIRE
28 April 2009Debris and open burning86 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
13 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDM&E ROW
30 March 1999Debris and open burning20 acresVolin Volunteer Fire DepartmentJOE LAQUE
20 March 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionOLD CAR GUY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury County

Storms near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindArlington$200,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree, power line, and pole damage. The winds also damaged a car wash under construction, blew down road signs, and broke windows. Some vehicles were damaged, mainly by trees or tree debris.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindArlington$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, breaking limbs of all sizes off trees. One tree was knocked into an electrical wire, causing a power outage which lasted several hours.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindArlington$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. Trees greater than one foot in diameter were blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindArlington$5,000Thunderstorm wind gusts caused a tree to fall on a car. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
August 2002LightningArlington$2,000Lightning struck a mobile home and started a small fire. A VCR and a computer were destroyed, and a water heater was damaged.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindArlington-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a Road Weather Information System sensor 4 miles south of Arlington.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindArlington-A thunderstorm wind gust of 73 mph was measured by the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD504 4 miles south of Arlington.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindArlington-The tops of two grain silos were ripped off and crushed in. Portions of roofs were peeled off downtown, with multiple trees down throughout town.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindArlington-Thunderstorm winds downed several limbs up to 4 inches in diameter, as well as a 12-inch diameter tree.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindArlington-A thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph was measured South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD504 4 miles south of Arlington. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2010HailArlington-Hail was mostly small with a few stones up to golf ball size.
July 2010HailArlington-Large hail stripped a few leaves off trees.
March 2009Flash FloodArlington-Rainfall of around 4 inches caused flash flooding of low areas. Parts of Highway 14 west of Arlington and Highway 81 north of Arlington were under water. Residual flooding with standing water continued into the following morning.
March 2009FloodArlington-Flooding of low areas and roads from standing water, including Highway 14 west of Arlington and Highway 81 north of Arlington, from standing water continued through most of the morning hours after heavy rain caused flash flooding in the area.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindArlington-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous large branches blown down just north of State highway 14.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindArlington-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches down.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Arlington-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Arlington-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2025HailArlington-no account filed
October 2022HailArlington-no account filed
May 2012HailArlington-no account filed
July 2010HailArlington-no account filed
June 2008HailArlington-no account filed
May 2005HailArlington-no account filed
September 2005HailArlington-no account filed
May 2004HailArlington-no account filed
May 2004HailArlington-no account filed
July 2000HailArlington-no account filed
September 1997HailArlington-no account filed
September 1997HailArlington-no account filed
September 1997HailArlington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingsbury 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
Hetland5.5 miles9
Spring Lake Colony9.1 miles9
Badger9.2 miles9
Lake Preston12.9 miles9
Oldham13.2 miles9
Erwin18.6 miles9
De Smet22.2 miles11
Manchester31.1 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 Q2452048The 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 1267666. 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.