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Harding, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harding City. It lies in ZIP code area 56364. The Survey maps it on the Lastrup quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,260 feet above sea level.

Harding within Morrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Harding fell from 125 to 123 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
2010125
2020123-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Harding between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,008 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 107 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
Arson/incendiarism107
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
14 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harding in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHarding$200,000Numerous tees down. Four mobile homes on the northwest side of Pierz were deemed uninhabitable after being pounded by the strong wind and large hail. An adjacent chicken barn was also destroyed.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHarding-Damage to barn and outbuildings.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHarding-Measured by MNDOT Road Sensor on Highway 25 at mile post 140.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHarding-Measured by MNDOT sensor along Highway 25 on south side of Morrison - Crow Wing County line.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHarding-A 70x80 foot heavy equipment maintenance shop was demolished along 233rd Street in Platte Township. Sections of the steel roof were found lodged in a ditch and trees along State Highway 25, one quarter mile east of the site. A 34x96 foot hip-roof barn on the same property collapsed and a collection of antique tractors inside was damaged. Also, a storage shed chimney was damaged, a second metal storage shed had one wall blown in 6 inches, and a house sustained damage to a TV tower and shingles. In addition, several trees and at least 2 power poles were downed within a mile vicinity of the farm site.
August 2023HailHarding-no account filed
July 2014HailHarding-no account filed
July 1999HailHarding-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Platte2.3 miles12
Lastrup5.4 miles12
Freedhem9.8 miles12
Pierz9.9 miles10
Hillman11.0 miles6
Genola11.5 miles10
Buckman15.3 miles10
Camp Ripley Junction15.6 miles13

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 HardingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230698The 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 644659. 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.