Do you know of Jericho ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Jericho. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Jericho.
We found mention of Jericho as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Carroll County, Virginia.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1902 and closed in 1906.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Jericho ...
We found 42 communities that share the name Jericho.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Jericho.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 41 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 41 communities, 40 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Crittenden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Jericho [Crittenden County].
- Connecticut
- New London County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Jericho [New London County].
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Gove County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Jericho [Gove County].
- Kentucky
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Jericho [Grant County].
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Jericho [Henry County].
- Larue County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Jericho [Larue County].
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Jericho [Morgan County].
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Jericho [Russell County].
- Louisiana
- Vernon Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Jericho [Vernon Parish].
- Mississippi
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Jericho [Union County].
- Missouri
- Laclede County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Jericho [Laclede County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Jericho.
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Jericho [Clinton County].
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Jericho [Nassau County].
- Queens County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Jericho [Queens County].
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Jericho [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
- Caswell County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Jericho [Caswell County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Jericho.
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Jericho [Charleston County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Juab County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Jericho [Juab County].
- Vermont
- Washington
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Jericho [Grant County].
- West Virginia
- Hampshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Jericho [Hampshire County].
- Wisconsin
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Jericho ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Jericho:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
The FIPS database contains an entry for Jericho.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 51/40856 (Place Name: Jericho)
County: Carroll (FIPS State/County: 51/035)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Jericho) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Carroll County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Carroll County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Jericho could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |