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Jerome, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bartholomew Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71638. The Survey maps it on the Jerome quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Jerome within Drew County

On record in Jerome

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

Jerome fell from 39 to 24 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
201039
202024-15 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jerome between 2005 and 2006, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism2

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
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 December 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jerome in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2020Tornado (EF0)Jerome$100,000The tornado struck a series of large industrial grain and feed silos and caused substantial damage. One of the silos had its foundation ripped out of the ground and it was bolted into concrete in several locations. The roof of another large silo was blown downwind at least a half mile and fell apart into pieces. Power poles were snapped and trees were snapped at the trunk or uprooted along this short path.
March 2016Flash FloodJerome$60,000Emergency management reported that the crossing on highway 165 was washed out.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindJerome$1,000A tree was blown down, blocking Spillway Rd. near Lake Wallace.
March 2026HailJerome-Half-dollar sized hail fell in the town of Jerome.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindJerome-Multiple trees were blown down in Jerome.
April 2011HailJerome-The hail fell at Townsend Lake.
February 2008HailJerome-Hail covered the ground on Arkansas Highway 922.
February 2009HailJerome-no account filed
April 2003HailJerome-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindJerome-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Drew 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
Troy (historical)6.2 miles13
Leavits (historical)8.8 miles13
Baxter9.1 miles13
Collins10.4 miles14
Jordan (historical)12.2 miles13
Cominto13.1 miles14
Jade (historical)14.8 miles14
Prairie Grove15.6 miles9

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 JeromeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79630The 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 77373. 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.

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.