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Welcome to Jericho ...

Jericho is located in the Missouri Ozarks.

Jericho is located in Laclede County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Jericho, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1856.

Time Zone: Jericho lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Jericho: 417

Communities Also Named Jericho ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 42 communities that are also named Jericho - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana (2), Kansas, Kentucky (5), Louisiana, Mississippi, New Brunswick, New Hampshire (2), New Jersey (2), New York (4), North Carolina, Ohio (3), Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Texas (2), Utah, Vermont (2), Virginia (2), Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Jericho.

Adding Jericho to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Jericho in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Jericho was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Jericho post office opened in 1856.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Jericho.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Laclede, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/