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Jericho, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wappanocca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72327. The Survey maps it on the Jericho quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Jericho within Crittenden County

Population over time

2 figures

Jericho fell from 119 to 98 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010119
202098-21 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Jericho between 1993 and 2010, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeWAP 1
7 June 1999Debris and open burning10 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeWAP 2
23 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeWAP 2
28 April 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexWALKWAY
4 March 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeWAP 1
15 March 1993Smoking3.1 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexWAP 1
5 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeUNIT P-9 WILDFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jericho: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jericho in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2003Thunderstorm WindJericho$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2006HailJericho$5,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindJericho$4,000Straight line winds knocked down trees near the Jericho area to 4 miles north of Marion on Highway 77.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindJericho$1,000Tree limbs and debris on I-55 near Jericho and one power pole snapped in half.
November 2007Thunderstorm WindJericho$1,000Straight line winds blew down a few power lines in Jericho.

Every storm recorded in Crittenden County

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
James Mill1.7 miles14
Clarkedale1.7 miles14
Booker3.6 miles10
Harvard3.7 miles18
Sunset4.6 miles18
Gammon4.7 miles18
Scanlan (historical)5.0 miles14
Marion5.2 miles18

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 JerichoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2558130The 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 57990. 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.

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.