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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.

Arlington within Snohomish 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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Arlington 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.

YearPeople Change
201017,926
202019,868+1,942 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

What the histories say of this town

11,661 words

2 chapters about Arlington from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, FutureSnohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914)865 words
HistoryHistory of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926)10,796 words

Fires near this place

38 since 1993

Regional 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 burning18
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
9 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHEIGHTS RD
5 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPAINTBALL
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHEMLOCK
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGRANDVIEW CURVE
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.9 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters99TH DRIVE
14 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jim CreekDiatomiteOccurrence
Olson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Skagit Power LineLimestone, DimensionUnknown
ArlingtonIronOccurrence
Coe Pit and MillIronProducer
Coe ProspectIronOccurrenceLimonite
JeffersonIronOccurrence
JeffersonIronPast Producer
Jefferson MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Arlanco Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997LightningArlington1 hurtno account filed
May 2005Tornado (F1)Arlington$6,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Snohomish 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
Arlington Junction0.5 miles19
Bryant3.3 miles19
Edgecomb3.3 miles19
Arlington Heights3.4 miles17
Totem Park3.9 miles19
Trafton4.4 miles17
Smokey Point4.4 miles19
Sisco4.9 miles19

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 Q1055866The 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.