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Harney, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Thomson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55733. It stands on Hay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Esko quadrangle. It stands 1,198 feet above sea level.

Harney within Carlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

358 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 358 fires within 5 miles of Harney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 326 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Railroad operations and maintenance121
Debris and open burning116
Equipment and vehicle use39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes1

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
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Harney: 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Carlton County Sand BedSilicaOccurrence
Zenith Dredge Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Carter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Koski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scanlon Pit and ShopSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thompson Twp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tompson Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harney in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011LightningHarney$30,000Lightning struck tree, which fell onto a house, waking the occupants.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindHarney-A downed tree was partially blocking Harney Road.
June 2012Flash FloodHarney-The bridge in North Cloquet, at Midway River was washed out. Local railroads were no longer usable.

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Esko1.9 miles9
Brownell3.1 miles9
Scanlon5.1 miles9
Thomson5.3 miles9
Carlton6.3 miles9
Cloquet6.7 miles9
Alford6.7 miles9
Wrenshall7.7 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 HarneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5659760The 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 644679. 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.