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Arlington, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hanna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82083. It stands on Overland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,707 feet above sea level.

Arlington within Carbon 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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Arlington grew from 25 to 37 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
201025
202037+12 (+48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Arlington between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandWHITE ROCKS
30 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon CountyARLINGTON
21 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMILE MARKER 267
21 August 1996Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeWHITE ROCK
1 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMM 273 TRUCK
27 July 2019Naturalunder an acreCarbon CountyBROKAW FIRE
26 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCONICAL
10 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeARLINGTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Arlington: 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Lead, Gold. 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
Copper KingLead, Gold, SilverProspect
Rock Creek UraniumUraniumUnknown
BrokawSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lonesome Fox CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 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 1998LightningArlington1 killed, 1 hurtA woman was killed by a lightning bolt while hiking in the Snowy Range. A friend that was hiking with her was injured. The two were trying to get to lower levels of the mountains after spotting the storm, but the storm caught them in the open.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindArlington-Corrects previous non-tstm wnd gst report from 3 NW Arlington. Mesonet station WY22 2.7 NW Arlington.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindArlington-WYDOT sensor near Arlington along Interstate 80.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindArlington-Mesonet station WY22 2.7 NW Arlington.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindArlington-Mesonet station 3 miles northwest of Arlington from a decaying thundershower.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindArlington-WYDOT mesonet station Arlington (KARL) along Interstate 80 measured wind gust.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindArlington-WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Foote Creek (WY22) measured wind gust 3 miles northwest of Arlington.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindArlington-WYDOT mesonet station Wagonhound (WY21) along Interstate 80 measured maximum wind gust.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindArlington-WYDOT mesonet station KARL - Arlington along Interstate 80 measured wind gust.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindArlington-Wyoming Department of Transportation site at Foote Creek on Interstate 80 measured the reported wind speed.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindArlington-Wyoming Department of Transportation site at Wagonhound on Interstate 80 measured the reported wind speed.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindArlington-WYDOT mesonet station KARL - Arlington along I-80 reported wind gust.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindArlington-The WYDOT sensor at Arlington East measured a peak wind gust of 78 mph.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindArlington-The WYDOT sensor at Cooper Cove measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindArlington-Wind measured at the Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Arlington East.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindArlington-The WYDOT sensor measured a wind gust of 58 mph.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindArlington-Winds gusted to 60 mph for 10 minutes at Arlington.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
McFadden5.8 miles11
Woodedge6.3 miles13
Morrisey (historical)8.3 miles17
Old Brooks Place9.5 miles11
Widdowfield (historical)11.1 miles12
Milo11.4 miles12
Elk Mountain12.6 miles11
Ivans Grove (historical)15.7 miles16

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 Q4406918The 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 1609063. 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.