Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Jericho, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Milford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45064. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle.

Jericho within Butler County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jericho, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Jericho, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the county-history sources

12,534 words on this township

The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Milford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The largest mound in the township is that on the farm of A. Logedrost, section eighteen. It is perfectly formed, composed of clay, and sixteen feet altitude by eightyeight feet in diameter at the base. It is located in an open field, and from the summit may be seen the hills beyond the Miami, and the hills in the distance at the north ; the view beyond the valley to the southwest is cut off by a range of hills. A drift has been sent in from the east a distance of ten feet, the material having been taken to fill up a depression in the barnyard. Within this drift was found an American half-dollar of the year 1812. It is slightly worn and much tarnished. From the south a drift has been made a distance of eight feet. Two excavations are in the top, one three feet and the other five in depth. From the latter a portion of a human skeleton, and a grooved stone axe, weighing over four pounds, were taken. I was fortunate enough to secure both the axe and the coin. Less than a fourth of a mile southeast of this mound, situated on the farm of

Passage source: The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879.

Section seven contains five mounds, three of them located on the farm of S. Crane. The two in the field are low, one of them containing burnt clay. Out of this some implements have been taken; also plaited hair in a charred condition. The remaining mound is four feet high, and located in the woods. The other two mounds, located on the farms of J. Garver and A. Shobert, are small. On the farm of A. Werner, section eighteen, is a low mound.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Milford Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,016 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,016 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jericho between 1879 and 1975: 876 Fungi, 859 Animalia, 207 Plantae, 60 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. V. J.; W. G. S., A.L.; Bucholtz, I. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.	1888	J. L. James
unnamed	1893	B. Fink	Oxford.
Hordeum sativum Pers.	1895	Kellerman, W.A.	Oxford, Butler Co. Ohio.
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Tringa solitaria A.Wilson, 1813	1879	Porter collection, J.B.
Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825	1880	not recorded
Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.
Tringa melanoleuca (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.
Gavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)	1881	Porter, J.B.
Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	Porter collection, J.B.
Taphrina pruni (Fuckel) Tul.	1888	J. L. James	Oxford.
Xylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev.	1888	James J. F.	Oxford

All 2,016 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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: 1 plant. All of them still produce. 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
	Dingledine Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Somerville	2.2 miles	11
Darrtown	3.7 miles	14
Collinsville	4.1 miles	9
Oxford	4.7 miles	11
McDonald (historical)	5.6 miles	16
Ogleton (historical)	6.3 miles	14
McGonigle	7.0 miles	14
Contreras	7.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064908. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.