Jericho, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

Village in Pennsylvania, United States

41°19′9″N 75°23′26″W / 41.31917°N 75.39056°W / 41.31917; -75.39056CountryUnited StatesStatePennsylvaniaU.S. Congressional District PA-10 School District Western Wayne
Region III CountyWayneMagisterial District22-3-01^[1]TownshipSterlingSettledc. 1818^[2]Founded byAmasa Megargel^[2]Named forJericho, Palestine^[3]Elevation

1,575^[4] ft (480 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (Eastern Daylight (EDT))ZIP code

De facto
18424^[5] (Gouldsboro)
18445^[6] (Newfoundland)

Area code 570 GNIS feature ID1203894^[4]FIPS code42-127-73968^[7]-38076^[4]Major Roads

WaterwaysButternut Creek,^[8] Memory Lake,^[9] Rock Port Creek,^[10] Lehigh River (West Fork)

Jericho is a village in Sterling Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

History

The Jericho Post Office was open between 1858 and 1861.^[11]

^ "District Magistrate". Wayne County, PA. Wayne County Courthouse. 2015. Archived from the original on November 27, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Mathews, Alfred (1886). History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: R.T. Peck & Company. p. 793. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ Herschell, Don (September 22, 1995). "Why name your town Ninevah?". Observer-Reporter. Washington and Greene Counties, Pennsylvania. p. B5. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Jericho". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1979. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ "Look up a ZIP Code". USPS.COM. USPS. 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ "Look up a ZIP Code". USPS.COM. USPS. 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Sterling Township" (PDF). CenStats Databases. Retrieved May 26, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)^{[dead link]}
^ "Butternut Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 2, 1979. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ "Memory Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 2, 1979. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ "Rock Port Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 2, 1979. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ Forte, Jim. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Jim Forte. Retrieved May 26, 2015.