Shinall Mountain
Coordinates: 34°47′57″N 92°29′49″W / 34.7993°N 92.49683°W
Shinall Mountain, elevation 1,056 ft (322 m), is located near the Chenal Valley neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. It is the highest point in Pulaski County.
Because the neighborhood (and Chenal Parkway, a major West Little Rock thoroughfare named for it) have similar-sounding names, the mountain is often misspelled "Chenal Mountain"; but "Chenal" is a French language word chosen by Chenal Valley's developers for foreign branding because of its similarity to the mountain's name. The mountain was known as "Shinall" long before either the neighborhood or the parkway existed. However, a book by noted Little Rock author, Fred W. Allsop published in 1931 by the Grolier Society, entitled, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas Vol. 1, page 90 states, "Shinall Mountain is a phonetically-spelled corruption of the French name Chenault, a family which in early days settled near its base. Its location is near the Joe T. Robinson Schoolhouse, in Pulaski county, and is reached via Perryville road and the 12th Street Pike in Little Rock; about 14 miles west of Forest Park." The Chenault families were those of Elijah Nelson Chenault and Benjamin Franklin Chenault who settled there before the Civil War on the southwest base of what became Chenault Mountain.
Although Pinnacle Mountain, in Pinnacle Mountain State Park to the north, is more prominent because it is located near the Arkansas River (even the USGS quad map for the Shinall Mountain area is called "Pinnacle Mountain"), it is only 1,011 feet (308 m), slightly shorter than Shinall Mountain.
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