Arlington

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Arlington is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 25 at the 2010 census.”
Wikipedia article Arlington, Wyoming, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. S of I-180, Arlington, 82083
When was it listed? November 1983
Category. district
Census division. Hanna
National Register reference number. 83004268 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

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/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

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

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.

Site	Commodity	Status
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

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington, the town this property stands in, 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.

Every storm recorded in Carbon County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83004268 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon County	All 43 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.