The U.S. Board on Geographic Names named "Mount Jenkins" (located just off the Pacific Crest Trail in the southern Sierra Nevada) after J. C. Jenkins in December, 1984, in honor of his commitment and hard work in serving the USFS, and for all the thousands of miles he hiked and backpacked in his cut short life, experience that enabled him to write what were at the time, the best and most accurate and most thorough hiking guides covering the southern section of the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California.
