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Harmony Grove, California

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Oceanside-Escondido census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92029. It lies near Franks Peak. The Survey maps it on the Rancho Santa Fe quadrangle. 2,079 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Harmony Grove within San Diego County

Then and now

1893 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harmony Grove, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Harmony Grove, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 43 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

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Harmony Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,331 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined162
Equipment and vehicle use66
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
9 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Diego UnitELISO
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitHARMONY
5 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSan Diego UnitHARMONY
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Diego UnitMEDICAL AID
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.3 acresSan Diego UnitHARMONY
3 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSan Diego UnitHORIZON
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresSan Diego UnitDEER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Harmony Grove: 22 past producers, 15 producers, 8 prospects, 5 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Cleveland-Pacific MineGold, SilverProducer
Cleveland-Pacific MineGold, SilverPast Producer
EncinitasCopper, LeadPast ProducerVein
Haborlite CorporationPerlitePast Producer
Carmean QuarryStoneProducer
Dorothy and Pearl ClaimsClayPast Producer
Greenstone QuarryStoneProducer
Harris DepositTalc-Soapstone, GoldPast Producer
Morris Clay DepositClayProspect
Pioneer DepositTalc-SoapstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmony Grove in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 wildfire. The reports record 6 injuries. 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
October 1996WildfireHarmony Grove6 hurt, $37,400,000Santa Ana winds averaging 30 mph, with gusts to 45, fanned the flames of three wildfires across San Diego County. The first fire started in Harmony Grove, and quickly spread westward to eastern sections of Carlsbad and Encinitas, burning some 8,600 acres, destroying 125 homes, damaging 122 others, and seriously burning one man. Another fire broke out at 6:55 pm on the Rincon Indian Reservation, and spread to Valley Center, consuming 1,800 acres, and destroying six structures. The largest fire began around 2:00 am on the 22nd, on desolate Otay Mountain, and spread to the Tijuana River in Mexico, burning over 14,000 acres, three radio towers, and six cows, before it was under control on the 25th. In all, six people were injured, one critically by fire, 24,435 acres burned, and preliminary damages totaled 37.4 million dollars.

Every storm recorded in San Diego 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
Del Dios1.8 miles43
Elfin Forest2.2 miles43
Escondido3.0 miles43
San Marcos3.6 miles40
Richland4.0 miles40
Lake San Marcos4.4 miles40
Jesmond Dene6.0 miles42
Twin Oaks6.2 miles40

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Harmony GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110722160The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660723. 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.