Jenny Lind, Arkansas
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72936. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barling quadrangle.
On record in Jenny Lind
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
Old US 71-Jenny Lind Segmentlisted 2009
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 25 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.
- 1879 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:62500
- 1887 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Barling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Barling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Barling quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Barling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
71 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Jenny Lind between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,008 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 were 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 | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2005 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2001 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jenny Lind: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenny Lind Quarry & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenny Lind in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jenny Lind | $20,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a house. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jenny Lind | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jenny Lind | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree. The tree fell on power lines and knocked a power pole down. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jenny Lind | - | Thunderstorm wind was estimated to 65 mph. |
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Old Jenny Lind | - | Portions of several roads in and around Greenwood were flooded. |
| March 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jenny Lind | - | Two to five inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Jenny Lind | - | Trained spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown near Jenny Lind. No damage was reported. |
| March 1997 | Hail | Jenny Lind | - | Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in northwest Arkansas during the late morning and early afternoon of March 1st. The storms produced dime size hail 8 miles west of Huntsville, 5 miles south of Greenwood, at Midland, and 1 mile west of Jenny Lind. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Jenny Lind | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jenny Lind | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Jenny Lind | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Jenny Lind | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Jenny Lind | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jenny Lind | 0.1 miles | 25 | |
| Old Jenny Lind | 0.8 miles | 22 | |
| Crescent | 3.3 miles | 25 | |
| White Bluff | 3.4 miles | 25 | |
| Excelsior | 3.5 miles | 22 | |
| Greenwood | 4.1 miles | 22 | |
| Fort Chaffee | 4.3 miles | 25 | |
| Saw Mill | 4.4 miles | 25 |
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 Jenny Lind | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20657878 | 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 56794. 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.













