BlockBefore

Jericho, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buffalo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42748. The Survey maps it on the Hodgenville quadrangle.

Jericho within Larue County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Jericho between 1998 and 2014, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry210 FIRE
16 March 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larue County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jericho: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Highway 84 RoadcutClayProspect
Rolling Fork RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Larue County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jericho in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007Thunderstorm WindJericho$75,000A barn was blown down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindJericho-Multiple trees were blown down in the eastern part of LaRue County.
August 2021Flash FloodJericho-Herbert Howell Road was closed due to high water.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindJericho-A newly constructed metal garage work building was destroyed.

Every storm recorded in Larue 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
Buffalo2.7 miles8
Malt (historical)2.9 miles9
South Buffalo3.0 miles8
Leafdale3.2 miles8
Ginseng3.7 miles9
Mount Sherman4.7 miles9
Boundary Oak4.8 miles8
White City (historical)5.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508336. 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.