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Harmony Lake Estates, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pewee Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40026. The Survey maps it on the Owen quadrangle.

Harmony Lake Estates within Oldham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harmony Lake Estates in 2000, burning about 25 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
15 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Harmony Lake Estates: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dredge No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harmony LandingSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hel Del DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hel Del DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oldham 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
Goshen0.4 miles17
Harmony Landing2.1 miles17
Harmony Village2.2 miles17
Oldham Acres2.3 miles17
River Bluff2.8 miles16
Hillcrest2.9 miles16
Belknap Beach3.0 miles17
Skylight3.4 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122545493The 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 508190. 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.