Harmony, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eatonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30625. The Survey maps it on the Harmony quadrangle.

Harmony within Putnam County

On record in Harmony

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Terrell-Sadler Houselisted 2000

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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Harmony quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Harmony between 1992 and 2019, burning about 635 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
9 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	6.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.6 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmony in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Flash Flood	Harmony	$30,000	The Putnam County Emergency Management Director reported that a small drainage branch washed out a small portion of Little River Trail near Lake Sinclair. Another small drainage branch washed out a small portion of Martin Luther King Road near Eatonton. Rainfall of three to four inches was common across much of the county between 2 am and 5 am EDT on this day. Damages were to fixed washed out roads and culverts and remove debris.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	$1,500	The Putnam County 911 Center reported that four to five trees were blown down across the far northern part of the county near the Morgan county line.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	$1,000	The Putnam County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down across Crooked Creek Road near the intersection with Wilson Road.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	$250	The public reported that near the southern end of Lake Oconee, several tree limbs, both large and small, were broken off. In addition, a swing was blown off its frame.
February 2020	Flash Flood	Harmony	-	The Emergency Manager reported multiple roads closed due to water over the roadway, including: Highway 16 and Old Pheonix Road, Highway 16 and Carter Dearman, and West River Bend. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 6 inches of rain occurred over the area, falling on already wet soils and resulting in flash flooding.
September 2010	Hail	Harmony	-	The Putnam County 911 Center relayed reports of quarter-sized hail across the far northern part of the county.
August 2001	Hail	Harmony	-	The public reported dime size hail near the southern end of Lake Oconee.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Rudden	1.4 miles	12
Glades Cross-Roads	2.1 miles	12
Jefferson	2.2 miles	12
Reids Crossroads	4.9 miles	10
Spivey (historical)	5.5 miles	12
The Glades (historical)	6.3 miles	10
Turnwold	6.4 miles	12
Phoenix	7.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331916. 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.

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.