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Harmony, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Harmony City. It lies in ZIP code area 55939. The Survey maps it on the Harmony quadrangle. 1,043 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.

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Harmony within Fillmore 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

Population over time

2 figures

Harmony grew from 1,020 to 1,043 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
20101,020
20201,043+23 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Harmony between 1994 and 2008, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
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
12 July 2001Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 1998Smoking25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 December 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Harmony: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hoag Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pederson Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmony in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 16 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHarmony$50,000no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodHarmony$25,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHarmony$20,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHarmony$15,000Trees were blown down with some minor structural damage to buildings just south of Harmony.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHarmony$2,000Several trees were blown down 2.5 miles west of Harmony.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHarmony$2,000An estimated wind gust of 70 mph knocked down trees in Harmony. In addition, A NWS Storm Survey found a 20 inch tree branch snapped at the high school.
June 1998FloodHarmony$1,600no account filed
April 2026HailHarmony-A trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail near Harmony.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHarmony-The public reported a shed destroyed by downed trees in Harmony.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHarmony-The fire department in Harmony reported two large trees down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHarmony-The fire department in Harmony measured a wind gust of 72 mph.
December 2021Funnel CloudHarmony-A funnel cloud was sighted near Harmony.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindHarmony-An 84 mph wind gust was measured in Harmony with a private weather station.
July 2016Heavy RainHarmony-In Harmony, 3.26 inches of rain fell.
July 2016Flash FloodHarmony-Heavy rains caused Deer Creek to go out of its banks and send water over State Highay 139 south of Harmony.
June 2014Heavy RainHarmony-In Harmony, 3.74 inches of rain was measured.
June 2013Heavy RainHarmony-In Harmony, 4 inches of rain was reported.
April 2013Heavy RainHarmony-A rainfall report of 3.14 inches was received from the public near Harmony.
April 2013HailHarmony-Ping pong sized hail fell just north of Harmony.
April 2013HailHarmony-Half dollar sized hail was reported in Harmony.
July 2013HailHarmony-Quarter sized hail fell west of Harmony.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHarmony-A wind gust of 64 mph was measured by spotters in Harmony.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarmony-The Harmony fire department reported a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
September 2010Heavy RainHarmony-The storm total rainfall was 4.83 inches, while 1.92 inches of that total fell between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. CST on the 22nd. Elsewhere across the county, storm total amounts included 4.48 inches near Spring Valley, 4.13 inches at Carimona, and 3.89 inches at Highland.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHarmony-Fourteen-foot speed boat thrown into field. Numerous large trees down.
April 2015HailHarmony-no account filed
April 2013HailHarmony-no account filed
June 2007HailHarmony-no account filed
May 2006HailHarmony-no account filed
May 2006HailHarmony-no account filed
June 2004Funnel CloudHarmony-no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Harmony-no account filed
April 2002HailHarmony-no account filed
April 2002HailHarmony-no account filed
July 1998HailHarmony-no account filed
August 1997HailHarmony-no account filed
June 1997HailHarmony-no account filed
June 1997HailHarmony-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Harmony-no account filed
May 1995HailHarmony-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Big Spring2.4 miles8
Hutton4.6 miles8
Canton4.6 miles8
Henrytown5.1 miles8
Lenora6.9 miles8
Amherst7.1 miles8
Granger7.7 miles8
Prosper8.1 miles8

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 Q2230653The 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 644677. 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.