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Jericho Corners, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Geneva Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49090. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the McDonald quadrangle.

Jericho Corners within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Jericho Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
8 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 285 - 2019
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 0000169 - 2018
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 0000167 - 2018
5 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000668 - 2018
7 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000497 - 2018
3 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000506 - 2019
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 190199 - 2019
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 0000152 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Austin SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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
Friendsville2.8 miles11
West Bangor2.8 miles11
Maple Grove Corners2.9 miles11
Covert4.7 miles11
Wildwood4.9 miles11
Crystal Beach5.0 miles11
Indian Grove5.0 miles11
Sulphur Springs5.1 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122597318The 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 2112808. 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.