Jericho, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mattawa-Royal City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99321. The Survey maps it on the Beverly SE quadrangle. It stands 531 feet above sea level.

Jericho within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1912 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Beverly SE quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500
1965 USGS Beverly SE quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Jericho between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 August 1998	Debris and open burning	165 acres	Hanford Reach National Monument	HWY243&PL
9 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	LK LANIECE
5 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.5 acres	Spokane District	BEVERLY
26 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	14.5-CRABC
2 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	258 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	SCHRUMRANC
7 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	POWERLINE
3 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	226 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	LAKE LANICE
2 June 2020	Natural	under an acre	Spokane District	WAHLUKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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
	Sentinel Mountain	Pumice	Occurrence
	Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Smyrna	6.9 miles	12
Schwana	7.2 miles	16
Beverly	7.5 miles	16
Wanapum Village	8.5 miles	16
Mattawa	8.9 miles	12
Royal City	9.7 miles	12
Low Gap	10.4 miles	16
Desert Aire	12.6 miles	12

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 Q27995379

The 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 1511058. 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.