Jericho, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grassy Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41425. It stands on Meetinghouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ezel quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jericho within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Ezel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Ezel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

59 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Jericho (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 532 acres in total. 1 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	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
2 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	UPPER LONG
18 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	125 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2013	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MAYTOWN
9 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	UPPER LONG BRANCH
6 April 1999	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WELLINGTON RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ezel	0.4 miles	14
Pekin	2.7 miles	14
Maytown	3.0 miles	14
Mize	4.0 miles	14
Murphyfork	4.0 miles	14
Bonny	4.5 miles	14
Ebon	4.8 miles	14
Grassy Creek	5.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2362579. 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.