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Jericho, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Crittenden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41035. The Survey maps it on the Elliston quadrangle.

Jericho within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Jericho between 1998 and 2006, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2001Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 February 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 November 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jericho in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Jericho$35,000Damage occurred to numerous homes and outbuildings. Damage and destruction also occurred to large mature trees.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJericho$2,000A few trees were downed across northern Grant County.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindJericho$1,000A tree was downed on Napoleon Zion Station Road.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Mount Zion1.0 miles7
Zion Station2.4 miles9
Elliston3.9 miles7
Blackwell (historical)4.0 miles10
Sherman4.1 miles8
Folsom4.1 miles7
The Wells (historical)4.2 miles10
Reid (historical)4.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508338. 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.