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Old Jenny Lind, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72916. It lies near Long Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle.

Old Jenny Lind within Sebastian County

On record in Old 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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

80 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Old Jenny Lind between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,001 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2005Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Smoking15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Natural15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jenny Lind Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Jenny Lind in 1 storm report in 2022: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Flash FloodOld Jenny Lind-Portions of several roads in and around Greenwood were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Jenny Lind0.8 miles25
New Jenny Lind0.9 miles25
Excelsior2.8 miles22
White Bluff3.3 miles25
Crescent3.6 miles25
Greenwood4.1 miles22
Saw Mill4.5 miles25
Fort Chaffee5.1 miles25

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 Old Jenny LindAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18356733The 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 58302. 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.