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.
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
Jerome Elementary School No. 22listed 2005
Population over time
2 figuresJerome 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 39 | |
| 2020 | 24 | -15 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1936 USGS Lake Village quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Lake Village quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Lake Village NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Jerome quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional 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/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 December 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Jerome | $100,000 | The 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Jerome | $60,000 | Emergency management reported that the crossing on highway 165 was washed out. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jerome | $1,000 | A tree was blown down, blocking Spillway Rd. near Lake Wallace. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Jerome | - | Half-dollar sized hail fell in the town of Jerome. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jerome | - | Multiple trees were blown down in Jerome. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Jerome | - | The hail fell at Townsend Lake. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Jerome | - | Hail covered the ground on Arkansas Highway 922. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Jerome | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Jerome | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jerome | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Troy (historical) | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Leavits (historical) | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Baxter | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Collins | 10.4 miles | 14 | |
| Jordan (historical) | 12.2 miles | 13 | |
| Cominto | 13.1 miles | 14 | |
| Jade (historical) | 14.8 miles | 14 | |
| Prairie Grove | 15.6 miles | 9 |
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 Jerome | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79630 | 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 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.






