BlockJericho, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Heiberger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. The Survey maps it on the Heiberger quadrangle. It stands 194 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Heiberger quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Heiberger quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
66 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Jericho between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2,103 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | 25 acres | National Forests in Alabama | BULL BAT ROAD |
| 13 September 1997 | Natural | 10 acres | National Forests in Alabama | LIGHTNING #1 |
| 23 August 1995 | Natural | 40 acres | National Forests in Alabama | QUICK |
| 22 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20180812-2 |
| 26 July 1999 | Natural | 56 acres | National Forests in Alabama | DAVID PIERCE |
| 14 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jericho in 1 storm report in 2010: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Jericho | $2,000 | A creek overflowed its banks, causing a portion of Troy Perkins Road to become temporarily impassible. |
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.
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 Jericho | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21196442 | The 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 159860. 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.
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.