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Harned, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hardinsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40144. The Survey maps it on the Hardinsburg quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Harned within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Harned between 1999 and 2019, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFRED PHILLIPS FIRE
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKINGWOOD
7 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2010Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySEREE-WEST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

17 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harned in 17 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 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
March 2016Thunderstorm WindHarned2 hurt, $30,000An amateur radio operator reported trailers flipped over at Nancy Butler Trailer Park.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHarned$50,000A tree fell on the corner of a house in Harned.
June 2011Tornado (EF2)Harned$50,000The tornado first touched down at the west end of H Wilson Road as an EF-0, where around one dozen trees were snapped and uprooted. A barn collapsed when an oak tree fell on it. At the intersection of State Highway 79 and H Wilson Road, EF-2 damage occurred when a roof was torn from a home and thrown 60 yards. A 30 by 50 foot barn was thrown 200 yards and metal sheeting was thrown 300 yards. Several power poles were found leaning over State Highway 79. This tornado dissipated after snapping and uprooting several trees between State Highway 79 and Harned Locust Hill Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHarned$20,000There was damage to a building under construction.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHarned$10,000The public reported severe thunderstorm winds peeled the metal roof off a house and destroyed a small barn.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindHarned$8,000Strong straight line winds removed the roof from an old barn, throwing it onto the roof of a residence, damaging its roof in turn.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHarned$6,000Trees and power lines were reported down along Highway 60.
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Harned-The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Breckinridge County, near the communities of Hardinsburg and Harned, and determined an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 100 mph occurred the evening of March 30th, 2025. The tornado had a path length of 2.55 miles and a width of 30 yards. ||The first damage that was observed was along Butler Hobbs Road where a barn had roof panels lifted off for most of the south facing side of the building. The tornado continued along Butler Hobbs Road where several trees had large branch damage. The |tornado then crossed Ephesus Church Road where another barn had roof panel loss. The most significant damage occurred along US Highway 60 near Harned where several barn buildings had significant roof damage on the east and southeast side of the |building, which was the direction that the tornado approached. A barn and garage outbuilding were completely destroyed with estimated max wind speeds of 100 mph. A nearby residence also had wind damage, but there was clear evidence that the tornado was loosing strength with winds at this location near 80 mph. After crossing US Highway 60, there was no additional observable damage from this tornado.
July 2024Flash FloodHarned-Portions of Butler Hobbs Road and Ephesus Church Road were flooded.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindHarned-A Breckinridge County official reported trees down.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHarned-Tree limbs were reported down on power lines.
April 2015HailHarned-The county Emergency Manager reported penny size hail.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHarned-Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindHarned-Trees were downed. Hail of an undetermined size was also reported.
September 2023HailHarned-no account filed
April 2017HailHarned-no account filed
May 2010HailHarned-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Kingswood2.3 miles13
Codyville2.5 miles17
Hardinsburg3.2 miles17
Locust Hill3.4 miles11
Westview3.6 miles13
Garfield3.7 miles16
Kirk3.9 miles13
Hensley5.0 miles16

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 HarnedAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5659707The 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 493771. 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.