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Harmony, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brazil Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47834. It stands on National Run. The Survey maps it on the Brazil East quadrangle. 677 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.

Harmony within Clay 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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Harmony grew from 656 to 677 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010656
2020677+21 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harmony in 2001, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined1

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
3 October 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Harmony: 8 producers, 6 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Coal, Clay, Stone. 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
C & F Shale Pit 1Clay, StoneProducer
Cardonia PitClay, CoalPast Producer
Indiana Clay Sales PitCoal, ClayPast Producer
S. L. Turner Coal & Clay PitClay, CoalProducer
C & F Shale Pit 2ClayProducer
E and E Clay PitClayProducer
Hoosierville PitClayPast Producer
S.L. Turner Clay PitClayPast Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plant #2Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plants #'s 3 & 4Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmony in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002Flash FloodHarmony$50,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHarmony$2,000Multiple trees were downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts along US 40 east of Brazil.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHarmony-Trees were blown down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindHarmony-Trees were downed.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHarmony-Several trees were blown down in Harmony and about the county.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHarmony-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Donaldsonville0.6 miles14
Knightsville0.8 miles14
Brazil1.4 miles14
Shady Lane1.6 miles14
Benwood1.7 miles14
Cardonia1.9 miles14
Billville2.5 miles14
Cottage Hill2.7 miles14

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 HarmonyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q771257The 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 435746. 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.