BlockNew 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.
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
68 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of New Jenny Lind between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,000 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 | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| 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 New 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jenny Lind | 0.1 miles | 25 | |
| Old Jenny Lind | 0.9 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 New Jenny Lind | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18391970 | 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 77372. 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.