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Photograph of Old U.S. Route 71
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Old US 71-Jenny Lind Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Route 71 is a U.S. route that runs from Krotz Springs, LA to the Fort Frances-International Falls International Bridge at the Canadian border. In Arkansas, the highway runs from the Louisiana state line near Doddridge to the Missouri state line near Bella Vista.”

Wikipedia article U.S. Route 71 in Arkansas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Sebastian County · listed in 2009 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Listed as. Old US 71--Jenny Lind Segment - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Doraul Acres Ln. & part of Mt. Nebo Rd. W. of US 71., Jenny Lind, 72936
  • When was it listed? September 2009
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
  • Township. Township 4
  • National Register reference number. 09000738 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Old US 71-Jenny Lind Segment between 1997 and 2020, burning about 988 acres in total. 6 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old US 71-Jenny Lind Segment: 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 property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenny Lind, the town this property stands in, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJenny Lind$20,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a house.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindJenny Lind$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindJenny Lind$1,000Thunderstorm 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 2025Thunderstorm WindJenny Lind-Thunderstorm wind was estimated to 65 mph.
June 2022Flash FloodOld Jenny Lind-Portions of several roads in and around Greenwood were flooded.
March 2010Thunderstorm WindJenny Lind-Two to five inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Jenny Lind-Trained spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown near Jenny Lind. No damage was reported.
March 1997HailJenny 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 2020HailJenny Lind-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindJenny Lind-no account filed
June 2004HailJenny Lind-no account filed
May 1997HailJenny Lind-no account filed
May 1995HailJenny Lind-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Greenwood Presbyterian Church3.5 miles2008
Greenwood Gymnasium3.6 miles2011
Robert Atlas Harper House3.7 miles2000
Sebastian County Jail, Old3.8 miles1994
Maness Schoolhouse4.6 miles2003
State Highway 96 Bridge5.5 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000738 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sebastian CountyAll 64 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.