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Photograph of Old Sebastian County Jail
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Sebastian County Jail, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Old Sebastian County Jail is a historic former jail in Greenwood, Arkansas. It is a two-story stone building, located just east of the Sebastian County Courthouse on the south side of Arkansas Highway 10 in the city center.”

Wikipedia article Old Sebastian County Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Sebastian County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. AR 10, E of County Courthouse, Greenwood, 72936
  • When was it listed? December 1994
  • Category. building
  • Township. Township 2
  • National Register reference number. 94001413 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

63 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Sebastian County Jail, Old between 1997 and 2019, burning about 707 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning20
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Natural15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sebastian County Jail, Old: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Peerless Coal CoFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this property

60 of 127 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwood, the town this property stands in, in 127 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 60 thunderstorm wind, 51 hail, 10 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 2019Flash FloodGreenwood1 killedSeveral roads were flooded in and around Greenwood. A motorist was driving east on Highway 10 and slid off the wet roadway into Heartsill Creek, where the vehicle overturned and he drowned.
June 2004Flash FloodGreenwood$1,000,000Torrential rain hit Greenwood where a total of near 6 inches of rain was reported. The rain caused widespread flooding with 90 homes and seven businesses effected.
July 2011LightningGreenwood$200,000Lightning struck a church resulting in a major fire that consumed the structure.
March 2008Flash FloodGreenwood$200,000Heavy rain caused flooding that impacted homes and businesses in Greenwood and closed several roads across the area.
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Greenwood$150,000This tornado developed over northwest Greenwood, and moved east-northeast across the northern portion of town. It moved onto Fort Chaffee, where it dissipated. Homes were damaged, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, and power poles were snapped by this tornado. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 100 to 110 mph.
September 2007Flash FloodGreenwood$100,000Heavy rain caused severe street flooding in Greenwood. Streets were closed and ten vehicles were stranded. High water also entered and damaged four homes and a business. The American Red Cross temporarily relocated two families due to the flood damage to their homes.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$75,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 75 miles an hour blew trees down onto six houses, causing major damage to three of them. Several bank signs and power lines were also blown down.
May 2020HailGreenwood$50,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles, homes, and businesses.
March 2006HailGreenwood$50,000Hail up to golfball size covered the ground.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$40,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree onto a home, resulting in significant structural damage.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$30,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees, two of which fell onto homes.
April 2020HailGreenwood$25,000Golfball size hail damaged vehicles and the roofs of homes.
December 2014Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$25,000Several wood trusses were blown over on the partially completed Greenwood Police Department. Damage also occurred to a metal roof of another building.
June 2017HailGreenwood$25,000no account filed
May 2001Flash FloodGreenwood$20,000Heavy thunderstorm rains caused a few rural roads to be washed out near Greenwood.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$10,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour ripped the siding off a school gym. A football goal post was also bent over.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$10,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few trees and some power lines. One of the trees fell on a house.
January 1999HailGreenwood$10,000Nearby at Midland, large hail dented several cars.
January 2018Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a home.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a roof off a barn and blew down a tree.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down numerous tree limbs, damaged a barn and blew the awning off a business.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Greenwood$5,000Brief tornado spin-up from updraft area that passed south of Fort Smith. Damage occurred on Fort Chaffee Military Reservation. Numerous trees were downed in an open field, but no structural damage to buildings was reported.
January 1999HailGreenwood$5,000Hail of unknown size broke out car windows along Milltown Road 5 miles southeast of Greenwood.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs, some of which fell onto power lines.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs and blew down power lines.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew shingles off a roof.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power lines.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$2,000Winds of 70 mph caused some roof damage in Greenwood.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$2,000Business signs were blown down in Greenwood
December 2008Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees and power lines.
January 1999HailGreenwood$1,000Quarter-sized hail covered the ground. Location of this report: off of AR Hwy 10 Spur west of Greenwood. One home just east of Greenwood lost several windows to the large hail.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$500Thunderstorm winds blew down several signs.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$500Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$500Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100A large tree was blown down in Greenwood.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100A tree was blown down, blocking a road near Greenwood
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100A tree was blown down in Greenwood
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed numerous large tree limbs in Greenwood.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in Sebastian County of northwest Arkansas during the late afternoon and early evening of July 22nd and produced damaging winds. Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and damaged outbuildings in Lavaca, and 3 power poles were blown down near Lavaca. Trees were blown down 3 miles northwest of Greenwood.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees on Highway 96.
June 2022FloodGreenwood-Portions of several roads were flooded and closed.
June 2022Flash FloodGreenwood-Portions of several roads, including W Denver Street, were flooded and closed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs on Ware Road.
May 2020Flash FloodGreenwood-Locally heavy rainfall resulted in flooding of several creeks and streams, which flowed over rural roads in and around Greenwood.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph by a storm chaser.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Strong thunderstorm wind estimated to 60 mph snapped large tree limbs.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted a few trees and snapped large tree limbs.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees in town.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to near 60 mph.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 63 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Thunderstorm wind was estimated to 60 mph.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-A storm spotter measured thunderstorm wind gusts to 65 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree.

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
Robert Atlas Harper House0.3 miles2000
Greenwood Presbyterian Church0.4 miles2008
Greenwood Gymnasium0.6 miles2011
State Highway 96 Bridge1.9 miles1995
Old US 71-Jenny Lind Segment3.8 miles2009
Milltown Bridge5.9 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001413 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.