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.
Population over time
2 figuresJericho 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 119 | |
| 2020 | 98 | -21 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1931 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1970 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge | WAP 1 |
| 7 June 1999 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge | WAP 2 |
| 23 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge | WAP 2 |
| 28 April 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | WALKWAY |
| 4 March 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge | WAP 1 |
| 15 March 1993 | Smoking | 3.1 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | WAP 1 |
| 5 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge | UNIT P-9 WILDFIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jericho | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Jericho | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jericho | $4,000 | Straight line winds knocked down trees near the Jericho area to 4 miles north of Marion on Highway 77. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jericho | $1,000 | Tree limbs and debris on I-55 near Jericho and one power pole snapped in half. |
| November 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jericho | $1,000 | Straight line winds blew down a few power lines in Jericho. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Mill | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| Clarkedale | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| Booker | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Harvard | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Sunset | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Gammon | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Scanlan (historical) | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Marion | 5.2 miles | 18 |
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 Q2558130 | 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 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.









