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.
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
Arlingtonlisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresArlington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | |
| 2020 | 37 | +12 (+48%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | WHITE ROCKS |
| 30 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | ARLINGTON |
| 21 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | MILE MARKER 267 |
| 21 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | WHITE ROCK |
| 1 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | MM 273 TRUCK |
| 27 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Carbon County | BROKAW FIRE |
| 26 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | CONICAL |
| 10 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | ARLINGTON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper King | Lead, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Rock Creek Uranium | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Brokaw | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lonesome Fox Corp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Lightning | Arlington | 1 killed, 1 hurt | A 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Corrects previous non-tstm wnd gst report from 3 NW Arlington. Mesonet station WY22 2.7 NW Arlington. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | WYDOT sensor near Arlington along Interstate 80. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Mesonet station WY22 2.7 NW Arlington. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Mesonet station 3 miles northwest of Arlington from a decaying thundershower. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | WYDOT mesonet station Arlington (KARL) along Interstate 80 measured wind gust. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Foote Creek (WY22) measured wind gust 3 miles northwest of Arlington. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | WYDOT mesonet station Wagonhound (WY21) along Interstate 80 measured maximum wind gust. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | WYDOT mesonet station KARL - Arlington along Interstate 80 measured wind gust. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Wyoming Department of Transportation site at Foote Creek on Interstate 80 measured the reported wind speed. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Wyoming Department of Transportation site at Wagonhound on Interstate 80 measured the reported wind speed. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | WYDOT mesonet station KARL - Arlington along I-80 reported wind gust. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | The WYDOT sensor at Arlington East measured a peak wind gust of 78 mph. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | The WYDOT sensor at Cooper Cove measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Wind measured at the Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Arlington East. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | The WYDOT sensor measured a wind gust of 58 mph. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington | - | Winds gusted to 60 mph for 10 minutes at Arlington. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McFadden | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Woodedge | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Morrisey (historical) | 8.3 miles | 17 | |
| Old Brooks Place | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Widdowfield (historical) | 11.1 miles | 12 | |
| Milo | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| Elk Mountain | 12.6 miles | 11 | |
| Ivans Grove (historical) | 15.7 miles | 16 |
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 Q4406918 | 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 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.







