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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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
Daniel Dayton Houselisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresHarmony 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,020 | |
| 2020 | 1,043 | +23 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Harmony quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 1994Regional 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/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 July 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 1998 | Smoking | 25 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 December 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoag Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pederson Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
40 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Harmony | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | $15,000 | Trees were blown down with some minor structural damage to buildings just south of Harmony. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down 2.5 miles west of Harmony. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | $2,000 | An 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 1998 | Flood | Harmony | $1,600 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Harmony | - | A trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail near Harmony. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | - | The public reported a shed destroyed by downed trees in Harmony. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | - | The fire department in Harmony reported two large trees down. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | - | The fire department in Harmony measured a wind gust of 72 mph. |
| December 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Harmony | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near Harmony. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | - | An 84 mph wind gust was measured in Harmony with a private weather station. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Harmony | - | In Harmony, 3.26 inches of rain fell. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Harmony | - | Heavy rains caused Deer Creek to go out of its banks and send water over State Highay 139 south of Harmony. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Harmony | - | In Harmony, 3.74 inches of rain was measured. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Harmony | - | In Harmony, 4 inches of rain was reported. |
| April 2013 | Heavy Rain | Harmony | - | A rainfall report of 3.14 inches was received from the public near Harmony. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Harmony | - | Ping pong sized hail fell just north of Harmony. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Harmony | - | Half dollar sized hail was reported in Harmony. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Harmony | - | Quarter sized hail fell west of Harmony. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | - | A wind gust of 64 mph was measured by spotters in Harmony. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | - | The Harmony fire department reported a peak wind gust of 60 mph. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Harmony | - | 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony | - | Fourteen-foot speed boat thrown into field. Numerous large trees down. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Harmony | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Harmony | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Harmony | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230653 | The 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.




