Arlington, Washington
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Arlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98223. It stands on South Fork Stillaguamish River. The Survey maps it on the Arlington West quadrangle. 19,868 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 115 feet above sea level.
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 3 records
Trafton Schoollisted 2006- Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Arlington (Boundary Increase & Additional Documentation)listed 2012
- Naval Auxiliary Air Station-Arlingtonlisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresArlington grew from 17,926 to 19,868 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17,926 | |
| 2020 | 19,868 | +1,942 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Arlington West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
What the histories say of this town
11,661 words2 chapters about Arlington from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future | Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914) | 865 words |
| History | History of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926) | 10,796 words |
Fires near this place
38 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 1993 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HEIGHTS RD |
| 5 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PAINTBALL |
| 4 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HEMLOCK |
| 19 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | GRANDVIEW CURVE |
| 19 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 14 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.9 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 99TH DRIVE |
| 14 September 1998 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 27 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Arlington: 19 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Diatomite, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Creek | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Olson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Skagit Power Line | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Arlington | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Coe Pit and Mill | Iron | Producer | ||
| Coe Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | Limonite | |
| Jefferson | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Jefferson | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Jefferson Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Limonite | |
| Arlanco Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Lightning | Arlington | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Arlington | $6,000 | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Junction | 0.5 miles | 19 | |
| Bryant | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Edgecomb | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Arlington Heights | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Totem Park | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Trafton | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Smokey Point | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Sisco | 4.9 miles | 19 |
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 Arlington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1055866 | The 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 1515947. 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.







