Jericho is a rural village situated on the Capricorn Highway

Capricorn Highway

The Capricorn Highway is located in Central Queensland, Australia, and links the city of Rockhampton with western Queensland. The highway is approximately 560 kilometres long, and joins the Landsborough Highway at Barcaldine...

 in Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia

Australia

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. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

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, Jericho and the surrounding region had a population of 309.

History

The first exploration by Europeans was when Major Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell

Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland. In 1827 he took up an appointment as Assistant Surveyor General of New South Wales. The following year he became Surveyor General and remained in this...

 passed through the area in 1846. By the 1850s settlers had moved in.

In December 2010, half of the town's houses were indundated by floods.

External links

• Jericho, Queensland style