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Harmony, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Moulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35650. It stands on Naughan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caddo quadrangle.

Harmony within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1933

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Employee housing. One of the house types at the construction village at Wheeler, Alabama. Most early house types of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) were more or less in harmony with local traditional building design to minimize avoiding conflict with strongly held prejudices, but improvements in detail and a closer approach to thoroughly modern concepts were sought for and attained on each subsequent project
Employee housing. One of the house types at the construction village at Wheeler, Alabama. Most early house types of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) were more or less in harmony with local traditional building design to minimize avoiding conflict with strongly held prejudices, but improvements in detail and a closer approach to thoroughly modern concepts were sought for and attained on each subsequent project
Photographer not recorded, 1933. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

200 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Harmony between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,776 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 87 were 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
Arson/incendiarism87
Debris and open burning68
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-8
27 September 2006Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160917-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Harmony: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Moulton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Pittsburg1.6 miles14
Masterson Mill2.7 miles13
Chalybeate Springs2.9 miles14
Longtown3.1 miles13
Fairfield4.1 miles17
Mountain Home4.1 miles13
Moulton4.2 miles18
Midway4.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 136765. 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.