BlockJericho, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Aiken-Neuville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75935. The Survey maps it on the Neuville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Augustine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Neuville quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
46 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Jericho between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 574 |
| 29 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 65 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHELBY 16:30 |
| 30 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jericho in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jericho | - | Structural straight-line wind damage was observed in the community of Jericho where a clustering of chicken houses was mostly to completely destroyed by northerly wind gusts estimated to be up to 100 mph. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jericho | - | A tree was downed on a house. |
| April 2022 | Flash Flood | Jericho | - | High water covered Highway 7 about 6 miles southwest of Center. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jericho | - | A tree was downed on Highway 7 west of Center. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jericho | - | A tree was blown down about 10 miles west of Center on Highway 7. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380002. 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.