BlockBefore

Jericho, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Brothertown town. It lies in ZIP code area 53014. The Survey maps it on the Brothertown quadrangle.

Jericho within Calumet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Jericho between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018053
2 June 2020Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources41
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018036
10 November 2020Debris and open burning7.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources92

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Jericho: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Charlesburg QuarryStoneUnknown
Chilton QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Buechel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Charlesburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jericho in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindJericho-Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines at the intersection of County Highway C and County Highway H.
October 2007HailJericho-Quarter-size hail fell near Jericho.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindJericho-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F1)Jericho-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calumet 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
Brothertown2.3 miles12
Maple Heights2.9 miles12
Quinney3.8 miles10
Eckers Lakeland3.8 miles10
Kloten4.5 miles10
Charlesburg5.1 miles10
Dorns Twilight Beach5.6 miles10
Chilton6.8 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on JerichoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6182114The 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 1567156. 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.