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New Harmony, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36879. The Survey maps it on the Camp Hill SE quadrangle.

New Harmony within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

96 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of New Harmony between 1994 and 2020, burning about 764 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-29
19 September 2011Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 89, AL
30 July 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160730-1
30 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120730-001
26 July 2012Natural8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120726-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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 New Harmony: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Rippatoe PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Harmony in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Harmony-Several trees uprooted along Highway 147 in southwest Chambers County.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Culebra2.5 miles12
Jones Mill2.6 miles12
Sturkie3.5 miles12
Waverly4.0 miles11
Kendall Crossroads4.1 miles12
Judson4.9 miles12
Oak Bowery5.4 miles12
Moorefield5.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156780. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.