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Jericho, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Mukwonago town. It lies in ZIP code area 53119. The Survey maps it on the Eagle quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Jericho within Waukesha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

16 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Jericho between 2010 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. None 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
11 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMCMILLER RANGE FIRE
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources73
27 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002498
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources22
30 May 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19128
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20089
7 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMCMILLER RANGE
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018021

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha 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: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bishop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jericho in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindJericho$6,000Two foot diameter trees blown over on observers property overlooking Eagle Spring Lake. Two occupied canoes on Eagle Spring Lake were overturned. Four canoeists were rescued by citizens.
April 2025HailJericho-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Eagleville1.7 miles24
Eagle2.7 miles23
North Prairie4.0 miles23
Oak Knoll4.6 miles24
Mukwonago4.8 miles24
Genesee6.2 miles23
Genesee Depot6.7 miles23
Ottawa6.9 miles23

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 Q6182129The 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 1567155. 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.