Harmony, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lathemtown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30115. The Survey maps it on the Canton quadrangle.

Harmony within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Canton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Canton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Harmony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 52 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 burning	159
Arson/incendiarism	52
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	18
Smoking	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Harmony: 14 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dickens Prospect	Copper, Iron-Pyrite	Past Producer	Massive Sulfide
Rich Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Cook Mine	Mica	Past Producer
J T Haley Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Lawson & Quarles Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand & Gravel Division	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Smith Prospect	Iron-Pyrite	Occurrence	Vein
G.I.Teasley Property	Iron	Occurrence
G.P. Mcfarland Property	Iron	Occurrence
James Higgins Property	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Buffington	0.9 miles	20
White City	1.6 miles	20
Macedonia	2.5 miles	21
Carmichael Crossroads	2.5 miles	20
Keithsburg	3.0 miles	22
Orange	3.5 miles	21
Avery	3.7 miles	20
Union Hill	3.9 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326322. 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.