Editing Arlington, Kansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Stouffer's Railroad Map of Kansas 1915-1918 Reno County.png|thumb|left|1915 railroad map of Reno County]]

Arlington was founded in 1877.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ |title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society |publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant |author=Kansas State Historical Society |year=1916 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n375 268]}}</ref> It was named after [[Arlington, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4438 |title=Profile for Arlington, Kansas |publisher=[[ePodunk]] |accessdate=June 22, 2014}}</ref> The first post office in Arlington was established in February 1878.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/page:1/county:RN |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=June 22, 2014}}</ref>

In 1887, the [[Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway]] built a main line from [[Herington, Kansas|Herington]] through Arlington to [[Pratt, Kansas|Pratt]].<ref name="Rock Island Rail History">{{Cite web |url=http://home.covad.net/~scicoatnsew/rihist4.htm |title=Rock Island Rail History |access-date=April 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619230000/http://home.covad.net/~scicoatnsew/rihist4.htm |archive-date=June 19, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1888, this line was extended to [[Liberal, Kansas|Liberal]]. Later, it was extended to [[Tucumcari, New Mexico]] and [[El Paso, Texas]]. It foreclosed in 1891 and taken over by [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway]], which shut down in 1980, reorganized as [[Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad]], merged in 1988 with [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]], and merged in 1997 with [[Union Pacific Railroad]]. Most locals still refer to this railroad as the "Rock Island".

In 1980, Arlington (with 503 residents at the time) was profiled by the Associated Press as a town that "has not had a murder in its entire history". The police chief at the time, Ralph Almquist, had been hired in 1974, marking the first time that Arlington had had a full-time police force, and boasted that "We don't have any murders here because I don't allow crime."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50731050/the-los-angeles-times/ "Peaceful Town in Kansas Has Never Had a Murder"], ''Los Angeles Times'', April 20, 1980, p2</ref>